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You ought to have known: positive epistemic norms in a knowledge-first framework

Synthese, ISSN: 1573-0964, Vol: 200, Issue: 5
2022
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    10
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      10
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    4

Article Description

There are two central kinds of epistemological mistakes: believing things you shouldn’t, and failing to believe things that you should. The knowledge-first program offers a canonical explanation for the former: if you believe something without knowing it, you violate the norm to believe only that which you know. But the explanation does not extend in any plausible way to a story about what’s wrong with suspending judgment when one ought to believe. In this paper I explore prospects for a knowledge-centering account of positive epistemic norms that describe epistemic duties to believe.

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