André Eilertsen
Biographic Data
| ID | 9566811 |
|---|---|
| NAME | André Eilertsen |
| GIVEN NAMES | André |
| FAMILY NAME | Eilertsen |
| SIGNATURE | EILERTSEN A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bergen |
| ORCID | 0009-0008-7731-6974 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 1 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 1 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Permissivism, Epistemic Utility, and Arbitrariness
The paper addresses the issue of “epistemic permissivism”: does epistemic rationality ever permit more than one doxastic attitude to some proposition, given some body of evidence? One approach has taken up William James’s idea that there are different ways of weighing our two central cognitive goals as believers: Believe truth! Shun error! This motivates an affirmative answer to the question: agents with the same evidence can rationally come to d…
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Permissivism, Epistemic Utility, and Arbitrariness
The paper addresses the issue of “epistemic permissivism”: does epistemic rationality ever permit more than one doxastic attitude to some proposition, given some body of evidence? One approach has taken up William James’s idea that there are different ways of weighing our two central cognitive goals as believers: Believe truth! Shun error! This motivates an affirmative answer to the question: agents with the same evidence can rationally come to d…
Arbitrariness (1 work) · Epistemology (1 work) · Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics (1 work) · Feminist Epistemology and Gender Studies (1 work) · Ontology (1 work) · Philosophy (1 work) · Philosophy and Theoretical Science (1 work)