‘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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转变、原因和封闭的思想

“你只是相信，因为你从小就相信它！” 是熟悉的批评。然而，许多皈依者所相信的与他们从小相信的相反。这是否使他们免受这些挑战的影响？我仔细研究了这种“转换防御”。如果这些挑战只涉及信仰谱系，那么某种皈依者对它们免疫。然而，这些挑战往往涉及思想封闭而不是家谱。从这个角度来看，对家谱批评免疫的皈依者可能是更多的由于她的皈依，易受这些挑战的影响。她的转变可能使她更有可能从事类似于经验证明的“道德自我许可”现象的“认知自我许可”。