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Epistemic akrasia and treacherous propositions
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Bar Luzon
The Philosophical Quarterly, pqaf002, https://doi.org/10.1093/pq/pqaf002
Published: 20 January 2025
...: it is that connection that explains the fundamental impermissibility of epistemic akrasia. epistemic akrasia higher-order evidence accuracy epistemic permissibility epistemic justification epistemic rationality evidential support Moore's paradox Consider the following case: Undergraduate skeptic Luna is just...
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Justified belief as an epistemic aim of education
Jonas Pfister
Journal of Philosophy of Education, Volume 59, Issue 1, February 2025, Pages 1–13, https://doi.org/10.1093/jopedu/qhae027
Published: 26 March 2024
... epistemic rationality epistemic value veritism Critical thinking is considered to be a central epistemic aim of education. If we think of Socrates’ method of teaching, the claim goes back at least to Antiquity. In more recent times, in the twentieth century, it has become an object of investigation...
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From critical thinking to criticality and back again
Henri Pettersson
Journal of Philosophy of Education, Volume 57, Issue 2, April 2023, Pages 478–494, https://doi.org/10.1093/jopedu/qhad021
Published: 29 March 2023
... this concern successfully is to lean on critical thinking as the core of our educational theory, bringing us right back to where we started. civic education criticality critical pedagogy critical thinking educational objectives epistemic rationality This paper assesses the prospects of combining...
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How Belief-Credence Dualism Explains Away Pragmatic Encroachment
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Elizabeth Jackson
The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 69, Issue 276, July 2019, Pages 511–533, https://doi.org/10.1093/pq/pqz006
Published: 19 February 2019
... the epistemic rationality of states like knowledge or justified belief. In this paper, I argue that dualism offers a unique explanation of pragmatic encroachment cases. First, I explain pragmatic encroachment and what motivates it. Then, I explain dualism and outline a particular argument for dualism. Finally...
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There are no epistemic norms of inquiry
David Thorstad
Published: 20 June 2024
... of rationality simpliciter, not epistemic rationality. In this chapter, I argue that the same grounds which led us to posit a distinction between epistemic and non-epistemic norms of belief should make us skeptical of the existence of a distinction between epistemic and non-epistemic norms of inquiry...
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The Nature of Rationality
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Emma Borg
Published: 11 November 2024
... features of rational decision-making that we can settle before trying to assess heuristic-driven behaviour as rational or not. To begin with, it is useful to introduce a distinction that is often drawn in philosophy between ‘epistemic rationality’ and ‘practical rationality’. Roughly, the former concerns...
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The Place of Reasons in Epistemology
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Kurt Sylvan and Ernest Sosa
Published: 10 July 2018
... epistemic reasons epistemic justification epistemic rationality epistemic normativity virtue epistemology Reasons attract unprecedented interest in recent literature on the foundations of epistemic normativity. This follows a trend in metaethics, where many view reasons as the basic units...
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Epistemic Akrasia
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Declan Smithies
Published: 22 August 2019
... attitudes in a single point of view. (1996: 110) We can bring this out by contrasting first-person and third-person perspectives on the requirements of epistemic rationality. If I rationally believe that it’s irrational for you to believe that p , it doesn’t follow that it’s irrational...
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LOGIC AND RATIONAL BELIEF
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David Christensen
Published: 04 November 2004
... Foley R BonJour L change of belief epistemic rationality global rationality pragmatic rationality simultaneous beliefs If there is one respect in which humans differ most fundamentally from the other animals, perhaps it is our superior ability to reason about, and understand, the world...
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Learning from Our Mistakes: Epistemology for the Real World
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William J. Talbott
Published online: 21 October 2021
Published in print: 22 November 2021
... or rational belief. For reasons that I explain later, this is not a book about knowledge; for other reasons that I explain later, it is a book about rational rather than justified belief. To be precise, it is a book about epistemic rationality as opposed to practical rationality or any other kind...
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Epistemic Risk and the Demands of Rationality
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Richard Pettigrew
Published online: 18 August 2022
Published in print: 11 August 2022
...The short abstract: Epistemic utility theory + permissivism about attitudes to epistemic risk permissivism about rational credences. The longer abstract: I argue that epistemic rationality is permissive. More specifically, I argue for two claims. First, a radical version of interpersonal...
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Definitions of Rationality in Philosophy, Cognitive Science, and Lay Discourse
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Keith E. Stanovich and others
Published: 30 September 2016
... H Tversky A Probabilistic reasoning Baron J Evans J St B T Harvey N Koehler D J CART Comprehensive Assessment of Rational Thinking Heuristics and biases tasks Kokis J Creative Leadership Forum Pinker S Grunewald M Ho C Kelley C Macpherson R Meserve R J Sá W epistemic rationality...
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New Rational Reflection and Internalism about Rationality
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Maria Lasonen-Aarnio
Published: 19 February 2015
... conditionalization Ross J epistemic accessibility defeat Pryor J skepticism White R rational reflection new rational reflection expert functions rationality epistemic rationality uncertainty about rationality Does rationality require that there be a match between one’s opinions about what it would...
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On Knowing One’s Reason
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Jonathan Dancy
Published: 17 April 2014
... (London: John Bohn, 1839), vol. 1, 77 . Hawthorne John Hornsby Jennifer Hyman John norms reasons Stanley Jason Unger Peter Hieronymi Pamela Littlejohn Clayton reason action Price A W Davis Wayne Sandis Constantine Sehon Scott Hobbes Thomas epistemic reasons epistemic rationality...
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Reasons for Belief, Reasons for Action, the Aim of Belief, and the Aim of Action
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Daniel Whiting
Published: 17 April 2014
.... ( 2003 ). “ Epistemic Rationality as Instrumental Rationality: A Critique, ” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 66: 612–40. 10.1111/j.1933-1592.2003.tb00281.x Littlejohn, C. ( 2012 ). Justification and the Truth-Connection (Cambridge: Cambridge...
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Pluralist Consequentialist Anti-Scepticism
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Nikolaj J. L. L. Pedersen
Published: 19 February 2020
... to the sceptic. Critics (Pritchard and Jenkins) have argued that Wright-style entitlement is not an epistemic kind of warrant and does not sustain epistemic rationality. This chapter develops a consequentialist alternative to Wright’s proposal. Acceptance of anti-sceptical hypotheses is epistemically warranted...
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Published: 22 April 2010
...This chapter sets out in detail another serious problem for modest vindications of morality: the problem of disagreement. When there is disagreement of a certain type over whether a proposition is true, it is epistemically rational to suspend judgement about its truth. There is disagreement...
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Epistemic Rationality
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Alison Hills
Published: 22 April 2010
... testimony as we do testimony about non-moral matters. And there are no moral experts, as there are experts on non-moral matters. Is this treatment of moral questions epistemically rational? This chapter argues that there is a connection between the standards of epistemic rationality for beliefs...
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