Closed-Mindedness and Dogmatism

Battaly, Heather

doi:10.1017/epi.2018.22

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“…Certitude about the correctness of doctrines is often sustained by dogmatism (for dogmatism, see e.g. Battaly, 2018). Any information and knowledge that is not aligned with one's own beliefs is to be rejected, as compromise is incompatible with purity and could be seen as a form of betrayal (Cassam in Sardoč, 2020).…”

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Threshold of Adversity: Resilience and the Prevention of Extremism Through Education

Benjamin

Gearon

Kuusisto

et al. 2021

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This article introduces the concept of ‘threshold of adversity’ as an, at present, tentative means of understanding the turning points to radicalization and extremism within educational systems. The conceptual frame is, we argue, of pedagogical and policy relevance across and beyond Nordic countries. Across Nordic countries, the main objective for the prevention of radicalization and extremism through education (PVE-E) is to strengthen the students’ resilience against ideological influences. Given the specialist complexities of the interdisciplinary research literature on terrorism, from which much PVE-E derives, for teachers and policy-makers, understanding the theoretical contexts, which underlie such policy innovations and their pedagogical implementation, are, understandably, problematic. To discuss extremism and the possibilities of its prevention especially in the education sector, an understanding of what exactly is being prevented or fought against is needed. Our conceptual ‘threshold of adversity’ model offers at least a starting point for a more practicable pedagogical implementation.

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Threshold of Adversity: Resilience and the Prevention of Extremism Through Education

Benjamin

Gearon

Kuusisto

et al. 2021

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“…What is closed-mindedness? Heather Battaly (2018) has developed a plausible analysis. Closed-mindedness is an unwillingness or inability to engage seriously with relevant intellectual options.…”

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Conversion, Causes, and Closed-Mindedness

DiPaolo¹

2020

J. of the Am. Philos. Assoc.

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Abstract‘You just believe that because you were raised to believe it!’ is a familiar criticism. Many converts, however, believe the opposite of what they were raised to believe. Does this make them immune to these challenges? I scrutinize this ‘conversion defense’. If these challenges only concern belief genealogy, a certain kind of convert is immune to them. However, these challenges often concern closed-mindedness rather than genealogy. Seen in this light, the convert who is immune to the genealogical critique may be more susceptible to these challenges due to her conversion. Her conversion may make her more likely to engage in ‘epistemic self-licensing’ akin to the empirically documented phenomenon of ‘moral self-licensing’.

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“…Epistemic arrogance can be regarded, under some definitions, as a particular kind of dogmatic close-mindedness. Following Battaly, we can define close-mindedness in general as either an unwillingness or an inability to seriously engage with relevant alternatives to one's view (Battaly 2018 a , 2018 b ). Thus, as Battaly notes, some people may be close-minded in the general sense even when they are willing to engage with others about some issue but lack the ability to do so.…”

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“…10For an overlapping account of close-mindedness, see Heather Battaly's contribution to this special issue (Battaly 2018 a ). …”

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Arrogance, Truth and Public Discourse

Lynch¹

2018

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Democracies, Dewey and others have argued, are ideally spaces of reasons – they allow for an exchange of reasons both practical and epistemic by those willing to engage in that discourse. That requires that citizens have convictions they believe in, but it also requires that they be willing to listen to each other. This paper examines how a particular psychological attitude, “epistemic arrogance,” can undermine the achievement of these goals. The paper presents an analysis of this attitude and then examines four arguments for how its adoption – especially by the powerful – undermines the ideal of democracy as a space of reasons.

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Closed-Mindedness and Dogmatism

Cited by 64 publications

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Threshold of Adversity: Resilience and the Prevention of Extremism Through Education

Threshold of Adversity: Resilience and the Prevention of Extremism Through Education

Conversion, Causes, and Closed-Mindedness

Arrogance, Truth and Public Discourse

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