When to Believe Upon Insufficient Evidence: Three Criteria

Presenter: Dr. Long, Ball State Alum

Are we ever entitled to believe something that we don't have epistemic justification for?

Two reasons for believing things, truth conducive and pragmatic.

William Jame's criteria;

Intellectually undecidable

Genuine option

Living, forced and momentous

Could there be an objection to these as criteria of when it would be okay to believe in unjustified beliefs?

Dr. Long's

Intellectually honest

Healthful and not harmful

So if a belief fits those criteria, can someone be entitled to that belief?

Do these criteria only raise a belief to permissible (a level still not quite justified)?

Is there ever a time where we could be required to hold an epitemically unjustified belief?