Hrishikesh Joshi
Biographic Data
| ID | 3866324 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hrishikesh Joshi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hrishikesh |
| FAMILY NAME | Joshi |
| SIGNATURE | JOSHI H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Bowling Green State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3758-4981 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Democracy and the Academy
This paper defends a provocative thesis: namely, that the present structure and composition of the academy undermine democratic legitimacy. Political philosophers have often stressed that universal suffrage by itself is not sufficient for such legitimacy. In these critiques, they have focused on the disproportionate power of the wealthy to shape politics and public discourse. I argue here that there is a deeper and relatively unnoticed problem in…
Science Communication, Paternalism, and Spillovers
Epistemic paternalism involves interfering with the inquiry of others, without their consent, for their own epistemic good. Recently, such paternalism has been discussed as a method of getting the public to have more accurate views on important policy matters. Here, I discuss a novel problem for such paternalism— epistemic spillovers . The problem arises because what matters for rational belief is one’s total evidence, and further, individual pie…
Development and preliminary validation of a diagnostic prediction model to optimise outpatient management of patients with urolithiasis using urinary stones and intervention quality of life (UsiqoL) m…
The duty to listen
In philosophical work on the ethics of conversational exchange, much has been written regarding the speaker side—i.e., on the rights and duties we have as speakers. This paper explores the relatively neglected topic of the duties pertaining to the listeners’ side of the exchange. Following W.K. Clifford, we argue that it's fruitful to think of our epistemic resources as common property . Furthermore, listeners have a key role in maintaining and i…
The Epistemic Significance of Social Pressure
This paper argues for the existence of a certain type of defeater for one’s belief that P —the presence of social incentives not to share evidence against P. Such pressure makes it relatively likely that there is unpossessed evidence that would provide defeaters for P because it makes it likely that the evidence we have is a lopsided subset. This offers, I suggest, a rational reconstruction of a core strand of argument in Mill’s On Liberty. A con…
Can we outsource all the reasons
Debunking creedal beliefs
Knowing Our Limits
Knowing Our Limits Knowing Our Limits. By Ballantyne Nathan. (Oxford: OUP, 2019. Pp. 344. Price £32.7.) Hrishikesh Joshi Hrishikesh Joshi Bowling Green State University, USA Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 71, Issue 2, April 2021, Pages 438–440, https://doi.org/10.1093/pq/pqaa042 Published: 02 June 2020
What are the chances you’re right about everything? An epistemic challenge for modern partisanship
The American political landscape exhibits significant polarization. People’s political beliefs cluster around two main camps. However, many of the issues with respect to which these two camps disagree seem to be rationally orthogonal. This feature raises an epistemic challenge for the political partisan. If she is justified in consistently adopting the party line, it must be true that her side is reliable on the issues that are the subject of dis…
Is Liberalism Committed to Its Own Demise
Are immigration restrictions compatible with liberalism? Recently, Freiman and Hidalgo (2016) have argued that immigration restrictions conflict with the core commitments of liberalism. A society with immigration restrictions in place may well be optimal in some desired respects, but it is not liberal, they argue. So if you care about liberalism more deeply than you care about immigration restrictions, you should give up on restrictionism. You ca…
What are the chances you’re right about everything? An epistemic challenge for modern partisanship
The American political landscape exhibits significant polarization. People’s political beliefs cluster around two main camps. However, many of the issues with respect to which these two camps disagree seem to be rationally orthogonal. This feature raises an epistemic challenge for the political partisan. If she is justified in consistently adopting the party line, it must be true that her side is reliable on the issues that are the subject of dis…
The duty to listen
In philosophical work on the ethics of conversational exchange, much has been written regarding the speaker side—i.e., on the rights and duties we have as speakers. This paper explores the relatively neglected topic of the duties pertaining to the listeners’ side of the exchange. Following W.K. Clifford, we argue that it's fruitful to think of our epistemic resources as common property . Furthermore, listeners have a key role in maintaining and i…
Is Liberalism Committed to Its Own Demise
Are immigration restrictions compatible with liberalism? Recently, Freiman and Hidalgo (2016) have argued that immigration restrictions conflict with the core commitments of liberalism. A society with immigration restrictions in place may well be optimal in some desired respects, but it is not liberal, they argue. So if you care about liberalism more deeply than you care about immigration restrictions, you should give up on restrictionism. You ca…
What are the chances you’re right about everything? An epistemic challenge for modern partisanship
The American political landscape exhibits significant polarization. People’s political beliefs cluster around two main camps. However, many of the issues with respect to which these two camps disagree seem to be rationally orthogonal. This feature raises an epistemic challenge for the political partisan. If she is justified in consistently adopting the party line, it must be true that her side is reliable on the issues that are the subject of dis…
Knowing Our Limits
Knowing Our Limits Knowing Our Limits. By Ballantyne Nathan. (Oxford: OUP, 2019. Pp. 344. Price £32.7.) Hrishikesh Joshi Hrishikesh Joshi Bowling Green State University, USA Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 71, Issue 2, April 2021, Pages 438–440, https://doi.org/10.1093/pq/pqaa042 Published: 02 June 2020
The Epistemic Significance of Social Pressure
This paper argues for the existence of a certain type of defeater for one’s belief that P —the presence of social incentives not to share evidence against P. Such pressure makes it relatively likely that there is unpossessed evidence that would provide defeaters for P because it makes it likely that the evidence we have is a lopsided subset. This offers, I suggest, a rational reconstruction of a core strand of argument in Mill’s On Liberty. A con…
Can we outsource all the reasons
Debunking creedal beliefs
Science Communication, Paternalism, and Spillovers
Epistemic paternalism involves interfering with the inquiry of others, without their consent, for their own epistemic good. Recently, such paternalism has been discussed as a method of getting the public to have more accurate views on important policy matters. Here, I discuss a novel problem for such paternalism— epistemic spillovers . The problem arises because what matters for rational belief is one’s total evidence, and further, individual pie…
Development and preliminary validation of a diagnostic prediction model to optimise outpatient management of patients with urolithiasis using urinary stones and intervention quality of life (UsiqoL) m…
The duty to listen
In philosophical work on the ethics of conversational exchange, much has been written regarding the speaker side—i.e., on the rights and duties we have as speakers. This paper explores the relatively neglected topic of the duties pertaining to the listeners’ side of the exchange. Following W.K. Clifford, we argue that it's fruitful to think of our epistemic resources as common property . Furthermore, listeners have a key role in maintaining and i…
Democracy and the Academy
This paper defends a provocative thesis: namely, that the present structure and composition of the academy undermine democratic legitimacy. Political philosophers have often stressed that universal suffrage by itself is not sufficient for such legitimacy. In these critiques, they have focused on the disproportionate power of the wealthy to shape politics and public discourse. I argue here that there is a deeper and relatively unnoticed problem in…
Philosophy (8 works) · Epistemology (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Law and economics (5 works) · Political Philosophy and Ethics (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Economics (4 works) · Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works)