The live dead hypothesis thing is so critical to this argument that if he's saying that it's it's spurious whether or not something is you're inclined to believe it like it's a matter of just the accident, then that leads to a very pessimistic pessimistic epistemological conclusion. So I don't think he sees it as pessimistic, right? I think he thinks that's just life that we are going that certain things are going to be live for us. Now again, this is what I was saying earlier. The whole idea of probabilistic belief is not addressed in this. You never hear him talk about things that are where you like it's either suspend judgment or all out belief.
David and Tamler argue about William James' classic essay "The Will to Believe." What's more important - avoiding falsehood or discovering truth? When (if ever) is it rational to believe anything without enough evidence? What about beliefs that we can't be agnostic about? Are there hypotheses that we have to believe in order for them to come true? Does James successfully demonstrate that faith can be rational?
Plus, a philosopher at Apple who's not allowed to talk to the media - what are they hiding? And why are academics constantly telling students that academia is a nightmare?
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