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Pragmatic encroachment and justified group belief
The theory of pragmatic encroachment states that the risks associated with being wrong, or the practical stakes, can make a difference to whether...
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On the pure logic of justified belief
Justified belief is a core concept in epistemology and there has been an increasing interest in its logic over the last years. While many logical...
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Lackey on group justified belief and evidence
In this paper, I examine one central strand of Lackey’s The Epistemology of Groups , namely her account of group justified belief and the puzzle cases...
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Justified belief, knowledge, and the topology of evidence
We propose a new topological semantics for evidence, evidence-based justifications, belief, and knowledge. Resting on the assumption that an agent’s...
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Knowledge as Objectively Justified Belief
According to Lehrer’s defeasibility account of knowledge, we can understand knowledge as undefeated justified true belief. But this account faces...
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Evidentialism and Occurrent Belief: You Aren’t Justified in Believing Everything Your Evidence Clearly Supports
Evidentialism as an account of epistemic justification is the position that a doxastic attitude, D, towards a proposition, p, is justified for an...
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Knowledge as Justified True Belief
What is knowledge? I this paper I defend the claim that knowledge is justified true belief by arguing that, contrary to common belief, Gettier cases...
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Justified Evidence Resistance
The paper proposes a novel account of justified evidence resistance. When S inquires as to whether p is the case, S resists available counterevidence e ...
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Toward an Ethics of AI Belief
In this paper we, an epistemologist and a machine learning scientist, argue that we need to pursue a novel area of philosophical research in AI – the...
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Partially Autonomous Belief
Adam Carter (
2022 ) recently proposed that a successful analysis of knowledge needs to include an autonomy condition. Autonomy, for Carter, requires a... -
Group belief and direction of fit
We standardly attribute beliefs to both individuals and organised groups, such as governments, corporations and universities. Just as we might say...
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Belief: What is it Good for?
“Absolutely nothing,” say the radical Bayesians. “Simplifying decisions,” say the moderates. “Providing premises in practical reasoning,” say the...
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Conspiracy Theory Belief: A Sane Response to an Insane World?
Are conspiracy theory beliefs pathological? That depends on what is meant by "pathological." This paper begins by unpacking that ill-defined and...
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Belief, blame, and inquiry: a defense of doxastic wronging
According to the thesis of doxastic wronging, our beliefs can non-derivatively wrong others. A recent criticism of this view claims that proponents...
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Acceptance and the ethics of belief
Various philosophers authors have argued—on the basis of powerful examples—that we can have compelling moral or practical reasons to believe, even...
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Is Belief in Political Obligation Ideological?
A prominent position in the scholarly literature is that there is no duty to obey the law or political obligation. This is in contrast with lay...
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Epistemic Normativity & Epistemic Autonomy: The True Belief Machine
Here I will re-purpose Nozick’s (1974) “Experience Machine” thought experiment against hedonism into an argument against Veritic Epistemic...
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Rational belief, epistemic possibility, and the a priori
In this paper, I discuss Whiting’s (
2021 ) account of rational belief and discuss some unresolved issues arising from its reliance on epistemic... -
Merely statistical evidence: when and why it justifies belief
It is one thing to hold that merely statistical evidence is sometimes insufficient for rational belief, as in typical lottery and profiling cases. It...
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Knowledge and Belief
The different assessments of knowledge and belief provided by the Western philosophical tradition, on the one hand, and by the Abrahamic religious...