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Epistemic Paternalism - A Defence (Hardcover)
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We know that we are fallible creatures, liable to cognitive bias.
But we also have a strong and stubborn tendency to overestimate our
reasoning capacities. This presents a problem for any attempt to
help us reason in more accurate ways: While we might see the point
of others heeding intellectual advice and relying on reasoning
aids, each and every one of us will tend not to see the point of
doing so ourselves. The present book argues that the solution to
this problem lies in accepting a form of epistemic paternalism.
Accepting such paternalism is to accept that we are sometimes
justified in interfering with the inquiry of another without her
consent but for her own epistemic good. Because when it comes to
our freedom to conduct inquiry in whatever way we see fit, more is
not always better. In fact, less is often more.
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