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Doxastic voluntarism as party trick

Summary by The-tls.com
A cocktail party trick: try not to think of a pink elephant. Har-har, you just did, didn’t you? Now for something more interesting: try to believe that there is a pink elephant in the next room. Not imagine or pretend. Make yourself believe it’s really there. Any luck? Probably not. And that is the root of a philosophical puzzle: why can’t we believe things at will? It also leads, after a fashion, to a revealing thought about America’s cognitive…
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the-tls.com broke the news in on Wednesday, August 13, 2025.
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