TY - JOUR
T1 - A pluralistic account of epistemic rationality
AU - Kopec, Matthew
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017, Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht.
PY - 2018/8/1
Y1 - 2018/8/1
N2 - In this essay, I motivate and defend a pluralistic view of epistemic rationality. The core of the view is the notion that epistemic rationality is essentially a species of (teleological) practical rationality that is put in the service of various epistemic goals. First, I sketch some closely related views that have appeared in the literature. Second, I present my preferred, pluralistic version of the view, and I sketch some of its benefits. Third, I defend the view against a prominent objection recently offered against a class of closely related views by Selim Berker. Last, I raise some distinct, lingering worries, and I sketch some possible ways one might address them.
AB - In this essay, I motivate and defend a pluralistic view of epistemic rationality. The core of the view is the notion that epistemic rationality is essentially a species of (teleological) practical rationality that is put in the service of various epistemic goals. First, I sketch some closely related views that have appeared in the literature. Second, I present my preferred, pluralistic version of the view, and I sketch some of its benefits. Third, I defend the view against a prominent objection recently offered against a class of closely related views by Selim Berker. Last, I raise some distinct, lingering worries, and I sketch some possible ways one might address them.
KW - Epistemic consequentialism
KW - Epistemic instrumentalism
KW - Epistemic rationality
KW - Epistemic teleology
KW - Pluralism
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U2 - 10.1007/s11229-017-1388-x
DO - 10.1007/s11229-017-1388-x
M3 - Article
SN - 0039-7857
VL - 195
SP - 3571
EP - 3596
JO - Synthese
JF - Synthese
IS - 8
ER -