Epistemic Risk and the Demands of Rationality
Richard Pettigrew
Epistemic Risk and the Demands of Rationality
Richard Pettigrew
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How much does rationality constrain what we should believe on the basis of our evidence? Richard Pettigrew provides a novel philosophical argument for permissivism about epistemic rationality, and explores a variety of applications, including a discussion of conspiracy theories and the morality of imposing your attitudes to risk on others.
Richard Pettigrew is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Bristol. In 2008, he obtained his PhD in Mathematical Logic from this university. His thesis sought a foundation for mathematics in a theory of finite sets. From 2008 until 2011, he was a British Academy Postdoctoral at the university. He was appointed to a Lectureship in the same department in 2011, to a Readership in 2012, and to a Professorship in 2014. He has published four academic books and over forty journal articles, primarily focussing on structuralism in the philosophy of mathematics, rational choice theory for decisions involving preference change, greater access to higher education, and the accuracy-first programme in formal epistemology.
Richard Pettigrew is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Bristol. In 2008, he obtained his PhD in Mathematical Logic from this university. His thesis sought a foundation for mathematics in a theory of finite sets. From 2008 until 2011, he was a British Academy Postdoctoral at the university. He was appointed to a Lectureship in the same department in 2011, to a Readership in 2012, and to a Professorship in 2014. He has published four academic books and over forty journal articles, primarily focussing on structuralism in the philosophy of mathematics, rational choice theory for decisions involving preference change, greater access to higher education, and the accuracy-first programme in formal epistemology.