Tuesday, February 12, 2008

Sturgeon and epistemic norms

I haven't been this excited to read a paper in a very long time!

Scott Sturgeon's "Reason and the Grain of Belief" is out in Nous!

I'm a little concerned that he even presents as serious the rationality of unrestricted conjunction introduction, but he does note that it's widely held "as a correct idealization" which gives me hope that he's going to reject it later. (Ram Neta has a neat paper on coherence which notes the desirability of beliefs which can hold up to a lot of conjunctions.)

I've only glanced at the first two pages, but what a great read it looks to be. I'm rearranging my work schedule this week to be able to read it.