Readings
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If you have any trouble accessing the readings, please contact one of us.
Readings for 9/9
- Kelly, ‘Epistemic rationality as instrumental rationality: a critique’
- Kornblith, ‘Epistemic normativity’
Readings for 9/16
Catherine Elgin visits the seminar
- Elgin, ‘True Enough’
- Grimm, ‘The Value of Understanding’ (Optional)
Readings for 9/23
Kolodny, ‘How does coherence matter?’- Kornblith, ‘Epistemic normativity’
Readings for 9/30
- Kolodny, ‘How does coherence matter?’
Readings for 10/7
- Berker, ‘The rejection of epistemic consequentialism’
- Berker, ‘Epistemic teleology and the separateness of propositions’ (Optional)
Readings for 10/15
Note that this meeting is on a Tuesday.
- Stalnaker, ‘Epistemic Consequentialism’
Readings for 10/21
- Stalnaker, ‘Epistemic Consequentialism’
- Good, ‘On the Principle of Total Evidence’.
Readings for 10/28
- Joyce, ‘Acuracy and coherence’, sections 1-8.
Readings for 11/4
- Joyce, ‘Accuracy and coherence’, sections 9-12.
- Pettigrew, ‘Epistemic Utility and Norms for Credences’
Readings for 11/13
Mike Caie visits the seminar. Note that this meeting is on a Wednesday.
Readings for 11/18
- Greaves, ‘Epistemic Decision Theory’