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650Resolutions Against UniquenessErkenntnis 88 (3). 2021.The paper presents a new argument for epistemic permissivism. The version of permissivism that we defend is a moderate version that applies only to explicit doxastic attitudes. Drawing on Yalcin’s framework for modeling such attitudes, we argue that two fully rational subjects who share all their evidence, prior beliefs, and epistemic standards may still differ in the explicit doxastic attitudes that they adopt. This can happen because two such subjects may be sensitive to different questions. T…Read more
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403In Defense of ClutterErgo: An Open Access Journal of Philosophy 9 (n/a). 2022.Gilbert Harman’s famous principle of Clutter Avoidance commands that “one should not clutter one’s mind with trivialities". Many epistemologists have been inclined to accept Harman’s principle, or something like it. This is significant because the principle appears to have robust implications for our overall picture of epistemic normativity. Jane Friedman (2018) has recently argued that one potential implication is that there are no genuine purely evidential norms on belief revision. In this pap…Read more
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University of MiamiDoctoral student
Coral Gables-Miami, Florida, United States of America
Areas of Interest
Epistemology |
Philosophy of Language |
Philosophy of Action |