Epistemic Consequentialism, Truth Fairies and Worse Fairies

Direct Epistemic Consequentialism faces the Truth Fairy. Indirect Epistemic Consequentialism promises to avoid this issue. But there are worse fairies than the Truth Fairy. There is the Worse Fairy. The case of the Worse Fairy helps demonstrate that epistemic consequentialists who would solve proble...

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Autor principal: Andow, James
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Netherlands 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6086243/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30147174
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11406-017-9833-0
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spelling pubmed-60862432018-08-23 Epistemic Consequentialism, Truth Fairies and Worse Fairies Andow, James Philosophia (Ramat Gan) Article Direct Epistemic Consequentialism faces the Truth Fairy. Indirect Epistemic Consequentialism promises to avoid this issue. But there are worse fairies than the Truth Fairy. There is the Worse Fairy. The case of the Worse Fairy helps demonstrate that epistemic consequentialists who would solve problems like the Truth Fairy by ‘going indirect’ face a dilemma. Springer Netherlands 2017-04-12 2017 /pmc/articles/PMC6086243/ /pubmed/30147174 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11406-017-9833-0 Text en © The Author(s) 2017 Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.
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