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Epistemic Permissivism and Reasonable Pluralism

Rowland, R; Simpson, RM; (2021) Epistemic Permissivism and Reasonable Pluralism. In: Hannon, Michael and de Ridder, Jeroen, (eds.) The Routledge Handbook of Political Epistemology. (pp. 113-122). Routledge: Abingdon, UKhttps://doi.org/10.4324/9780429326769. Green open access

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Abstract

There is an intuitive difference in how we think about pluralism and attitudinal diversity in epistemological contexts versus political contexts. In an epistemological context, it seems problematically arbitrary to hold a particular belief on some issue, while also thinking it perfectly reasonable to hold a totally different belief on the same issue given the same evidence. By contrast, though, it doesn’t seem problematically arbitrary to have a particular set of political commitments, while at the same time thinking it perfectly reasonable for someone in a similar position have a totally different set of political commitments. This chapter examines three explanatory theses that might be used to make sense of this difference: (1) that practical commitments are desire dependent in a way that beliefs are not; (2) that there are reasons to be resolute in practical commitments, but not in beliefs; and (3) that compromise in the face of practical political disagreement doesn’t mitigate controversy, whereas compromise in the face of disagreement about mere beliefs does mitigate controversy.

Type: Book chapter
Title: Epistemic Permissivism and Reasonable Pluralism
ISBN-13: 9780367345907
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.4324/9780429326769
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429326769
Language: English
Additional information: This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher's terms and conditions.
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Dept of Philosophy
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10181246
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