Doxastic voluntarism is the thesis that our beliefs are subject to voluntary control. While
there's some controversy as to what “voluntary control” amounts to (see 1.2), it's often …

Bas van Fraassen's stance voluntarism has raised the question of how to justify one's own
stance choice if one is to follow the voluntarist dictum that all rational stances, ie all those …

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Resumo Em The Empirical Stance, van Fraassen propõe o voluntarismo de posturas
epistêmicas: é racional tudo o que é racionalmente permitido, e apenas a incoerência é …

A defesa explicativista do realismo científica baseia-se no sucesso da atividade científica.
Em contraste, o realismo local propõe que a postura realista deva ser justificada de modo …

Stance voluntarism highlights the role of the will in epistemic agency, claiming that agents
can control the epistemic stances they assume in forming beliefs. It claims that radical belief …