Being Rational and Being Right

Juan Comesana (University of Arizona)

Being Rational and Being Right
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Country
United Kingdom
Published
27 March 2020
Pages
240
ISBN
9780198847717

Being Rational and Being Right

Juan Comesana (University of Arizona)

Juan Comesana argues for a cluster of theses related to the rationality of action and belief in Being Rational and Being Right. His starting point is that rational action requires rational belief but tolerates false belief. From there, Comesana provides a novel account of empirical evidence according to which said evidence consists of the content of undefeated experiences. This view, which Comesana calls Experientialism, differs from the two main views of empirical evidence on offer nowadays: Factualism, according to which our evidence is what we know, and Psychologism, according to which our experiences themselves are evidence. He reasons that Experientialism fares better than these rival views in explaining different features of rational belief and action. Comesana embeds this discussion in a Bayesian framework, and discusses in addition the problem of normative requirements, the easy knowledge problem, and how Experientialism compares to Evidentialism, Reliabilism, and Comesana’s own (now superseded) Evidentialist Reliabilism.

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