How to Make Norms Clash. Issue 1 (2nd January 2021)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Schmidt, Eva
• Is Part Of: Australasian philosophical review. Volume 5:Issue 1(2021)
• Page Start: 46
• Page End: 55
• Publication Date: 2021-01-02
• Subjects: Norms of belief -- evidentialism -- prima facie duties -- faith; Philosophy -- Periodicals; 101
• DOI: 10.1080/24740500.2021.2000190
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2474-0500

Abstract

ABSTRACT: How should we understand the faith-based and epistemic norms of belief that Dormandy uses to demarcate three different views of the relation between epistemology and faith? I argue that conceiving of them as evaluative fails to explain the clash between faith-based and epistemic norms of belief, and that understanding them as prescriptive is no better. We arrive at a satisfying picture of these views if we interpret the relevant norms as prima facie norms, following Ross [1930].