Question
Miriam Schoenfield claimed we shouldn’t worry about “irrelevant influences” on this action in a 2014 paper defending permissivism. An essay defending this action, which inspired F. C. S. Schiller’s argument that axioms are true because we need them to be, compares it to a man insisting that a woman loves him, thereby causing her to love him. An essay condemns this action by noting that a shipowner who sends a rickety ship on a transatlantic voyage is blameworthy whether or not it sinks. An essay arguing for this action states, “‘Do not (*) decide, but leave the question open’ is itself a decision.” A philosopher advocated doing this action to genuine options, which are living, forced, and momentous, in an 1896 lecture responding to W. K. Clifford’s essay on “The Ethics of [this action].” For 10 points, William James defended “The Will to” do what action, which titles a C. S. Peirce (“purse”) essay on its “Fixation”? ■END■
ANSWER: belief [or believing; accept disagreement before “Schiller”; accept belief without evidence; accept belief in God or religion; accept “The Ethics of Belief”; accept “The Will to Believe”; accept “The Fixation of Belief”; accept “Permission to Believe: Why Permissivism Is True and What It Tells Us About Irrelevant Influences on Belief”; prompt on having faith or being religious]
<FW, Philosophy (19th/20th Century)>
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