Ethics & Epistemology

The ethics (or lack thereof) of belief

Is it morally wrong to believe something without, or even in spite, of the evidence?

William Kingdon Clifford (left) and William James (right), Wikimedia

A shipowner was about to send to sea a ship with immigrants on board. He knew that she was old, and not well built to begin with; that she had seen many seas and storms, and often had needed…