Conviction and humility
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20056352 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Michael Patrick Lynch (0000-0001-9535-6461, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Pages | 139-147 |
| Publication date | 2020-06-15 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Humility (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.4324/9781351107532-16 |
| OpenAlex | W3036419735 |
| ISBN | 9781351107532 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 1 |
Can we be intellectually humble about our own convictions? Should we be? These two questions have both a personal and political relevance in our lives. This chapter examines them in light of a theory of conviction according to which our convictions are commitments that reflect our self-identity and hence are hyper-resistant to counter-evidence. Nonetheless, I argue, individuals can have conviction and humility at the same time; more importantly, we can support institutions that encourage us to adopt the reflective stance necessary for epistemic growth
Conviction · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Humility · Political science · Psychoanalysis · Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography · Law · Philosophy · Psychology
| Citations per year | 1.2 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2021 - 2024 (4) |
| Highly cited | No |