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Misleading Higher-Order Evidence, Conflicting Ideals, and Defeasible Logic
Knoks, Aleks
2021In Ergo, An Open Access Journal of Philosophy, 8 (6), p. 141-174
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Keywords :
Epistemic normativity; Higher-order evidence; Rationality ideals; Defeasible logic; Epistemic dilemmas
Abstract :
[en] Thinking about misleading higher-order evidence naturally leads to a puzzle about epistemic rationality: If one's total evidence can be radically misleading regarding itself, then two widely-accepted requirements of rationality come into conflict, suggesting that there are rational dilemmas. This paper focuses on an often misunderstood and underexplored response to this (and similar) puzzles, the so-called conflicting-ideals view. Drawing on work from defeasible logic, I propose understanding this view as a move away from the default meta-epistemological position according to which rationality requirements are strict and governed by a strong, but never explicitly stated logic, toward the more unconventional view, according to which requirements are defeasible and governed by a comparatively weak logic. When understood this way, the response is not committed to dilemmas.
Disciplines :
Philosophy & ethics
Author, co-author :
Knoks, Aleks ;  University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Science, Technology and Medicine (FSTM) > Department of Computer Science (DCS)
External co-authors :
no
Language :
English
Title :
Misleading Higher-Order Evidence, Conflicting Ideals, and Defeasible Logic
Publication date :
13 December 2021
Journal title :
Ergo, An Open Access Journal of Philosophy
ISSN :
2330-4014
Publisher :
Michigan Publishing, United States - Michigan
Volume :
8
Issue :
6
Pages :
141-174
Peer reviewed :
Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi
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