Intellectual Humility and Incentivized Belief
Despite disagreement about what is fundamental or necessary to intellectual humility, there is broad agreement that intellectual humility will bear on the higher-order epistemic attitudes one takes towards one's beliefs (and other doxastic attitudes). Intellectually humble people tend not to un...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Sage Publishing
[2018]
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Journal of psychology and theology
Year: 2018, Volume: 46, Issue: 4, Pages: 268-278 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Intellect
/ Humility
/ Faith
/ Incentive
/ Opportunism
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| IxTheo Classification: | CB Christian life; spirituality NCB Personal ethics |
| Further subjects: | B
Dogmatism
B pragmatic reasons for belief B peer disagreement B EVIDENTIALISM B Religious Belief B intellectual humility B incentivized belief B Virtues |
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| Summary: | Despite disagreement about what is fundamental or necessary to intellectual humility, there is broad agreement that intellectual humility will bear on the higher-order epistemic attitudes one takes towards one's beliefs (and other doxastic attitudes). Intellectually humble people tend not to under- or overstate the epistemic strength of their doxastic attitudes. This article shows how incentivized beliefsbeliefs that are held partly for pragmatic reasonspresent a test case for intellectual humility. Intellectually humble persons will adopt ambivalent higher-order epistemic attitudes towards their incentivized beliefs. This is important for institutions that incentivize belief with material or social rewards, such as religious institutions that require orthodoxy for membership. The article argues that such institutions cannot simultaneously incentivize orthodox belief and enjoin conviction about such beliefs, unless they are willing to reject intellectual humility as a virtue. |
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| ISSN: | 2328-1162 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of psychology and theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/0091647118807173 |