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2023-2024 Joshi. Socially Motivated Belief and Its Epistemic Discontents
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2024
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What might an ideal epistemic agent look like? The picture given
to us by philosophers over time suggests something like an autonomous
thinker who appropriately responds to her evidence wherever
it may point. She would believe those things for which there
are the best (epistemic) reasons and wouldn’t simply believe on the
basis of what is comfortable or what is popular. Thus, Descartes
sought to rebuild his belief system from the foundations of only
those beliefs of which he could be rationally certain. Socrates challenged
the widely held philosophical and theological assumptions
of his time, for which he was put to death. Mill enjoins us to follow
the argument wherever it leads, even if it goes against commonly
held opinion.
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