Event Details
Dealing with Fallibility
- Event Date: September 15, 2011
- Event Start Time: 12:00 PM
- Event End Time: 7:00 PM
- Event Location: Rutgers University, Department of Philosophy
- Event Semester: Fall 2011
- Event Contact: Dr. Brian Weatherson
- Event Extra info: <a href="http://brian.weatherson.org">Dr. Brian Weatherson</a>
Several philosophers have argued recently that our credences should be sensitive not just to our evidence, but to what we know about how good we are at processing evidence. This is advertised as a way of adjusting for the fact that we are fallible in many respects. I argue against such approaches, on the grounds that they lead to regresses. If we are to account for our own fallibility, it must be by some other means than by adjusting credences.