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 |
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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. |
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ISSN: | 1573-0964 0039-7857 1573-0964 |
DOI: | 10.1007/s11229-022-03872-y |