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CEPPA Talk (in-person) – Matthew Vermaire (St Andrews)
April 16 @ 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Title: Conflated Questions in the Ethics of Belief
Abstract: It’s common to suppose that epistemology can be understood in close structural parallel with ethics: as ethics is about what to do, epistemology is about what to believe. In this paper I draw attention to an important limit of such parallelisms: in reasoning to belief, agents are concerned in the first instance not with what to believe but with the uniquely theoretical question of what is the case. I demonstrate the relevance this distinction in questions has for the debate between pragmatists and evidentialists in the ethics of belief, and I suggest a compromise that I expect no one to like.
Location: Edgecliffe G03 and online on teams