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Epistemic Dimensions of Personhood (Hardcover)
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Epistemic Dimensions of Personhood (Hardcover)
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Simon Evnine examines various epistemic aspects of what it is to be
a person. Persons are defined as finite beings that have beliefs,
including second-order beliefs about their own and others' beliefs,
and are agents, capable of making long-term plans. It is argued
that for any being meeting these conditions, a number of epistemic
consequences obtain. First, all such beings must have certain
logical concepts and be able to use them in certain ways. Secondly,
there are at least two principles governing belief that it is
rational for persons to satisfy and are such that nothing can be a
person at all unless it satisfies them to a large extent. These
principles are that one believe the conjunction of one's beliefs
and that one treat one's future beliefs as, by and large, better
than one's current beliefs. Thirdly, persons both occupy epistemic
points of view on the world and show up within those views. This
makes it impossible for them to be completely objective about their
own beliefs. Ideals of rationality that require such objectivity,
while not necessarily wrong, are intrinsically problematic for
persons. This "aspectual dualism" is characteristic of treatments
of persons in the Kantian tradition. In sum, these epistemic
consequences support a traditional view of the nature of persons,
one in opposition to much recent theorizing.
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