
Jonathan Glover on Systems of Belief
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The Importance of Belief in Philosophy
We have a tendency to believe things as part of a general holistic worldview. We can choose which ones we adapt when confronted with difficult evidence, he says. The distinguished American philosopher Alan Buchanan was brought up by lots of authority figures who unquestioningly accepted a racist ideology. He now has utterly different beliefs than he once grew up with.
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