One question here obviously concerns doxastic voluntarism (DV). You ask:
"If you know your belief isn't correlated to reality, how can you still believe it?"
Is this a rhetorical question aiming to assert that if you know your belief isn't correlated to reality, you can't still believe it"?
If so, then it just isn't clear that you're right. One possibility is that DV is true (there are, of course, many reasons to believe that it is). And, if DV is true, it's likely that different people have different degrees and kinds of control over their beliefs. After all, people differ with regard to all other known cognitive skills. Some irrational folks simply might have a... (read more)
One question here obviously concerns doxastic voluntarism (DV). You ask:
"If you know your belief isn't correlated to reality, how can you still believe it?"
Is this a rhetorical question aiming to assert that if you know your belief isn't correlated to reality, you can't still believe it"?
If so, then it just isn't clear that you're right. One possibility is that DV is true (there are, of course, many reasons to believe that it is). And, if DV is true, it's likely that different people have different degrees and kinds of control over their beliefs. After all, people differ with regard to all other known cognitive skills. Some irrational folks simply might have a... (read more)