Shooting with Confidence

In Jerry L. Walls & Gregory Bassham (eds.), Basketball and Philosophy: Thinking Outside the Paint. University of Kentucky Press. pp. 185-195 (2007)
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Abstract

Confidence is vital to athletic performance. But can a basketball player 'choose to believe' that his/her next shot is going in? Doxastic involuntarism is defended in this article; so the answer to this question is 'no'. However, by charting the reasons why a player may lose confidence, we find that there are corresponding strategies that offer hope for rebuilding a player's confidence--even though there can be no guarantee of these strategies' success.

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