You ought to have known: positive epistemic norms in a knowledge-first framework

There are two central kinds of epistemological mistakes: believing things you shouldn’t, and failing to believe things that you should. The knowledge-first program offers a canonical explanation for the former: if you believe something without knowing it, you violate the norm to believe only that wh...

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Veröffentlicht in:Synthese (Dordrecht) 2022-09, Vol.200 (5), p.400, Article 400
1. Verfasser: Ichikawa, Jonathan Jenkins
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:There are two central kinds of epistemological mistakes: believing things you shouldn’t, and failing to believe things that you should. The knowledge-first program offers a canonical explanation for the former: if you believe something without knowing it, you violate the norm to believe only that which you know. But the explanation does not extend in any plausible way to a story about what’s wrong with suspending judgment when one ought to believe. In this paper I explore prospects for a knowledge-centering account of positive epistemic norms that describe epistemic duties to believe.
ISSN:1573-0964
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1573-0964
DOI:10.1007/s11229-022-03872-y