Colloquium: February 3rd
Title: "Epistemic Akrasia and Epistemic Injustice"
Speaker: Dr. Robert Pasnau
Friday, February 3rd at 2:30pm, CLE A203
It is familiar enough that we frequently act against our best judgments about what we ought to do. But do we also form beliefs against our best judgments about what we ought to believe? Some have doubted whether this sort of epistemic akrasia is even possible. I will argue that it is both possible and of great theoretical importance in considering how we ought to way our evidential perspective against the evidential perspective of others..