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The Limitations of the Open Mind (Hardcover)
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The Limitations of the Open Mind (Hardcover)
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When should you engage with difficult arguments against your
cherished controversial beliefs? The primary conclusion of this
book is that your obligations to engage with counterarguments are
more limited than is often thought. In some standard situations,
you shouldn't engage with difficult counterarguments and, if you
do, you shouldn't engage with them open-mindedly. This conclusion
runs counter to aspects of the Millian political tradition and
political liberalism, as well as what people working in informal
logic tend to say about argumentation. Not all misleading arguments
wear their flaws on their sleeve. Each step of a misleading
argument might seem compelling and you might not be able to figure
out what's wrong with it. Still, even if you can't figure out
what's wrong with an argument, you can know that it's misleading.
One way to know that an argument is misleading is,
counterintuitively, to lack expertise in the methods and
evidence-types employed by the argument. When you know that a
counterargument is misleading, you shouldn't engage with it
open-mindedly and sometimes shouldn't engage with it at all. You
shouldn't engage open-mindedly because you shouldn't be willing to
reduce your confidence in response to arguments you know are
misleading. And you sometimes shouldn't engage closed-mindedly,
because to do so can be manipulative or ineffective. In making this
case, Jeremy Fantl discusses echo chambers and group polarization,
the importance in academic writing of a sympathetic case for the
opposition, the epistemology of disagreement, the account of
open-mindedness, and invitations to problematic academic speakers.
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