Moore's paradox and epistemic norms
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Moore's paradox and epistemic norms. / Lo Presti, Patrizio Ulf Enrico.
In: Logos & Episteme. An International Journal of Epistemology, Vol. 5, No. 4, 2014, p. 445.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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T1 - Moore's paradox and epistemic norms
AU - Lo Presti, Patrizio Ulf Enrico
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - Why does it strike us as absurd to believe that it is raining and that one doesn’t believe that it is raining? Some argue that it strikes us as absurd because belief is normative. The beliefs that it is raining and that one doesn’t believe that it is are, it is suggested, self-falsifying. But, so it is argued, it is essential to belief that beliefs ought not, among other things, be self-falsifying. That is why the beliefs strike us as absurd. I argue that while the absurdity may consist in and be explained by self-falsification, we have no reasons to accept the further claim that self-falsifying beliefs are absurd because violating norms.
AB - Why does it strike us as absurd to believe that it is raining and that one doesn’t believe that it is raining? Some argue that it strikes us as absurd because belief is normative. The beliefs that it is raining and that one doesn’t believe that it is are, it is suggested, self-falsifying. But, so it is argued, it is essential to belief that beliefs ought not, among other things, be self-falsifying. That is why the beliefs strike us as absurd. I argue that while the absurdity may consist in and be explained by self-falsification, we have no reasons to accept the further claim that self-falsifying beliefs are absurd because violating norms.
KW - Faculty of Humanities
KW - Moore's paradox
KW - epistemic norms
KW - normative explanation
KW - absurdity
M3 - Journal article
VL - 5
SP - 445
JO - Logos & Episteme. An International Journal of Epistemology
JF - Logos & Episteme. An International Journal of Epistemology
SN - 2069-0533
IS - 4
ER -
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