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Epistemically Different Epistemic Peers

Topoi, 2019
For over a decade now epistemologists have been thinking about the peer disagreement problem of whether a person is reasonable in not lowering her confidence in her belief P when she comes to accept that she has an epistemic peer on P who disbelieves P.
Mariangela Zoe Cocchiaro, Bryan Frances
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Epistemic Gradualism Versus Epistemic Absolutism

Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, 2021
AbstractEpistemic absolutism holds that knowledge‐that is ungradable, while epistemic gradualism argues the opposite. This paper purports to remodel the gradualism/absolutism debate. The current model initiated by Stephen Hetherington fails to capture the genuine divergence between the two views, which makes the debate equivocal, and the gradualist ...
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Epistemic Hubris

Social Epistemology
It is common nowadays for laypeople to take public stances on complex issues, such as the effectiveness of a vaccine or the seriousness of anthro- pogenic climate change, without any kind of disciplinary expertise. Yet those who do so act as if they were experts in the field, disseminating their thoughts and sometimes also spreading their advice ...
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Epistemic Injustice and Epistemic Solidarity

2021
Abstract This chapter contains two more arguments against pessimism about moral testimony. First, it argues that epistemic justice sometimes requires you to accept moral testimony, despite the fact that doing so seems to clash with autonomy. Both good and bad experiences teach a person what matters, and how much things matter.
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Epistemic Equivalence and Epistemic Incapacitation

The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 2012
AbstractOne typical realist response to the argument from underdetermination of theories by evidence is an appeal to epistemic criteria besides the empirical evidence to argue that, while scientifi...
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Epistemic responsibility without epistemic agency

Philosophical Explorations, 2009
This article discusses the arguments against associating epistemic responsibility with the ordinary notion of agency. I examine the various 'Kantian' views which lead to a distinctive conception of epistemic agency and epistemic responsibility. I try to explain why we can be held responsible for our beliefs in the sense of obeying norms which regulate ...
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Epistemic Consequentialism and Epistemic Enkrasia

2018
Askell investigates what the epistemic consequentialist will say about epistemic enkrasia principles, principles that instruct one not to adopt a belief state that one takes to be irrational. She argues that a certain epistemic enkrasia principle for degrees of belief can be shown to maximize expected accuracy, and thus that a certain kind of epistemic
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Doing epistemic justice in sustainable development: Applying the philosophical concept of epistemic injustice to the real world

Sustainable Development, 2023
Sarah Cummings
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Autism, epistemic injustice, and epistemic disablement: a relational account of epistemic agency

SynthÈse, 2021
Amandine Catala, Luc Faucher, Pierre Poirier   +2 more
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Epistemic Deadspaces:

2021
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