Freedom and obligation in Locke's account of belief

British Journal for the History of Philosophy 28 (1):69-89 (2019)
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ABSTRACTLocke's account of belief formation poses a number of philosophical and practical difficulties. As John Passmore and others have shown, Locke appears to hold both that belief is involuntary...

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