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Doxastic permissiveness and the promise of truth

J. Drake

pp. 4897-4912

Abstrakt

The purpose of this paper is to challenge what is often called the “Uniqueness” thesis. According to this thesis, given one’s total evidence, there is a unique rational doxastic attitude that one can take to any proposition. It is sensible for defenders of Uniqueness to commit to an accompanying principle that: when some agent A has equal epistemic reason both to believe that p and to believe that not p, the unique epistemically rational doxastic attitude for A to adopt with respect to whether p is the suspension of judgment. In this paper, I offer a case wherein the agent has equal epistemic reason both to believe that p and to believe that not p, but the agent is not epistemically required to suspend judgment about whether p. Furthermore, the case is such that there seems to be no uniquely rational attitude for the agent to adopt.

Publication details

Published in:

Colombo Matteo, Gervais Raoul, Sprenger Jan (2017) Objectivity in science. Synthese 194 (12).

Seiten: 4897-4912

DOI: 10.1007/s11229-016-1176-z

Referenz:

Drake J. (2017) „Doxastic permissiveness and the promise of truth“. Synthese 194 (12), 4897–4912.