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Radical epistemology: reading Amia Srinivasan’s ‘Radical Externalism’ – Richard Pettigrew's homepage

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A recent profile piece in the Financial Times highlighted the breadth of Amia Srinivasan’s thought. It is not surprising, then, that the new Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory at Oxf…

Richard Pettigrew | Philosophy Publications Google Scholar | PhilPapers Books Epistemic Risk and the Demands of Rationality (2022). Oxford University Press. Webpage Abstract & Reviews How much does rationality constrain what we should believe on the basis of our evidence? According to this book, not very much. For most people and most bodies of evidence, there is a wide range of beliefs that rationality permits them to have in response to that evidence. The argument, which takes inspiration from William James’ ideas in ‘The Will to Believe’, proceeds from two premises. The first is a theory ab

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