In Being Rational and Being Right, Juan Comesaña argues for a cluster
of theses related to the rationality of action and belief. His
starting point is that rational action requires rational belief but
tolerates false belief. From there, Comesaña provides a novel account
of empirical evidence according to which said evidence consists of the
content of undefeated experiences. This view, which Comesaña calls
"Experientialism," differs from the two main views of empirical
evidence on offer nowadays: Factualism, according to which our
evidence is what we know, and Psychologism, according to which our
experiences themselves are evidence. He reasons that Experientialism
fares better than these rival views in explaining different features
of rational belief and action. Comesaña embeds this discussion in a
Bayesian framework, and discusses in addition the problem of normative
requirements, the easy knowledge problem, and how Experientialism
compares to Evidentialism, Reliabilism, and Comesaña's own (now
superseded) Evidentialist Reliabilism.
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ISBN
9780192586957
Published
2020
Publisher
Oxford University Press Academic UK
Language
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Engelsk
Format
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Digital bok
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