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The effort to be neutral

Gaultier, Benoit (2024). The effort to be neutral. Southern Journal of Philosophy, 62(3):348-357.

Abstract

My aim in this article is to elucidate the nature of a form of intellectual and practical neutrality that is not covered by existing accounts of suspension of judgment. After rejecting some inadequate characterizations of this attitude of neutrality, I provide a positive characterization of it: it is a successful effort to resist certain tendencies that are part of the dispositional profile of the doxastic state one is in on a given issue. I conclude by saying a few words about the reasons for which this effort can be made, and by answering in the negative the question of whether all the attitudes that can be characterized as attitudes of committed neutrality are of the same type.

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Item Type:Journal Article, refereed, original work
Communities & Collections:06 Faculty of Arts > Institute of Philosophy
Dewey Decimal Classification:100 Philosophy
Language:English
Date:1 September 2024
Deposited On:29 May 2024 10:46
Last Modified:31 Dec 2024 04:30
Publisher:Wiley-Blackwell Publishing, Inc.
ISSN:0038-4283
OA Status:Hybrid
Publisher DOI:https://doi.org/10.1111/sjp.12574
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