Tomorrow's Wagga Philosophy Seminar
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Cohen, Daniel
Oct 13, 2015, 6:46:04 PM10/13/15
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Thursday, 15 October, 4pm
Paul Silva (Monash)
Title: How to Endorse an Evidence Requirement, a Coherence Requirement, and the Possibility of Misleading Higher-Order Evidence
Abstract: Take this evidential requirement: If S’s total evidence supports taking a doxastic attitude, D, towards p, then rationality requires of S that she takes D towards p. This principle has been taken to be incompatible with the possibility of misleading higher-order evidence and coherence requirements on rationality. This is false. Evidentialists have nothing to fear from misleading higher-order evidence and coherence requirements. They need only observe a certain overlooked demand on doxastic justification (=rationality). In what follows I develop a view on which having a doxastically justified belief depends on the absence of “irrational trust” in certain propositions. I go on to argue that misleading higher-order evidence generates irrational trust and thus prevents one from having a doxastically justified belief.
Location: Room 212, Marchant Hall, Wagga Wagga Campus, Charles Sturt University.
This seminar is also available via videolink from: Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics (CSU), Level 1, 10-12 Brisbane Avenue, Barton ACT (take the lift to level 1 and ring the doorbell to your right).
For further details, see: waggaphilosophy.com
Daniel Cohen
Senior Lecturer in Philosophy | School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Charles Sturt University
Boorooma St
Wagga Wagga, 2678
Australia
Tel: +61 2 6933 2565
Email: dco...@csu.edu.au
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Paul Silva (Monash)
Title: How to Endorse an Evidence Requirement, a Coherence Requirement, and the Possibility of Misleading Higher-Order Evidence
Abstract: Take this evidential requirement: If S’s total evidence supports taking a doxastic attitude, D, towards p, then rationality requires of S that she takes D towards p. This principle has been taken to be incompatible with the possibility of misleading higher-order evidence and coherence requirements on rationality. This is false. Evidentialists have nothing to fear from misleading higher-order evidence and coherence requirements. They need only observe a certain overlooked demand on doxastic justification (=rationality). In what follows I develop a view on which having a doxastically justified belief depends on the absence of “irrational trust” in certain propositions. I go on to argue that misleading higher-order evidence generates irrational trust and thus prevents one from having a doxastically justified belief.
Location: Room 212, Marchant Hall, Wagga Wagga Campus, Charles Sturt University.
This seminar is also available via videolink from: Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics (CSU), Level 1, 10-12 Brisbane Avenue, Barton ACT (take the lift to level 1 and ring the doorbell to your right).
For further details, see: waggaphilosophy.com
Daniel Cohen
Senior Lecturer in Philosophy | School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Charles Sturt University
Boorooma St
Wagga Wagga, 2678
Australia
Tel: +61 2 6933 2565
Email: dco...@csu.edu.au
Charles Sturt University
| ALBURY-WODONGA | BATHURST | CANBERRA | DUBBO | GOULBURN | MELBOURNE | ORANGE | PORT MACQUARIE | SYDNEY | WAGGA WAGGA |
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Charles Sturt University in Australia
http://www.csu.edu.au
The Grange Chancellery, Panorama Avenue, Bathurst NSW Australia 2795
(ABN: 83 878 708 551; CRICOS Provider Numbers: 00005F (NSW), 01947G (VIC), 02960B (ACT)). TEQSA Provider Number: PV12018
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