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    Challenges→James's argument fails to show that one can have a sufficient moral reason for self-inducing an epistemically unsupported belief

    There is a weighty moral duty to proportion one's beliefs to the evidence

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    A more significant objection contends that James’s argument fails “to show that one can have a sufficient moral reason for self-inducing an epistemically unsupported belief” (Gale 1990, 283). This objection contends that there is a weighty moral duty to proportion one’s beliefs to the evidence, and that this duty flows from moral personhood – to be a morally responsible person requires that one have good reasons for each of one’s beliefs. But to believe an epistemically unsupported proposition i

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