Title: 鈥淓pistemic Reparations and the Right to be Known鈥� Abstract: In this paper, I provide an account of the epistemic significance of the phenomenon of 鈥渂eing known鈥� and the relationship it has to reparations that are distinctively epistemic. Drawing on a framework provided by the United Nations of the 鈥渞ight to know,鈥� I argue that…
Title: Legislative Intent: A Rational Unity Account (co-authored with David Tan (Deakin University)) Abstract:聽Does the legislature have intentions concerning the effects of legislation? If so, how can that intent be known by outsiders? Existing theories of legislative intent can be divided into three camps: skepticism, constructivism, and realism. This paper begins by outlining problems for…
Location:聽School 6 Title: Counterfactual Decision Theory Abstract: I defend counterfactual decision theory, which says that you should evaluate an act in terms of which outcomes would likely obtain, were you to perform it. Counterfactual decision theory has traditionally been subsumed under causal decision theory as a particular formulation of the latter. This is a mistake.…
Title: Risk, Ambiguity, and Ethical Decision-Making Abstract: I argue that it can be rational to defer to an authority about what to believe or what to do even when doing so goes against one鈥檚 own reasoning. Indeed, such deference is rational in typical cases in which individuals treat others as authorities: for example, experts in…
Title: Encroachment and epistemic negligence Abstract: In this talk, I argue that the moral duty of non-negligence is a fruitful way to understand and motivate the claim that moral reasons can 鈥榚ncroach鈥� on epistemic norms. More forcefully: we should readily affirm that on the epistemic norms governing agents like us鈥攖hat is, who have limited cognitive…
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