Research Seminar in Decision and Action Theory: Julia Staffel (University of Colorado, Boulder)
Location: Ludwigstr. 31, ground floor, Room 021.
24.04.2025 at 10:00
Title:
Humble reasoning: When can I stop?
Abstract:
One way of characterizing what makes someone a good reasoner is to appeal to intellectual virtues, such as curiosity, fair-mindedness or epistemic humility. My aim in this paper is to show that explaining how the virtue of humility should manifest itself in complex reasoning is more difficult than one might think. A very natural view of what intellectually humble deliberation looks like is problematic, because it leads to an infinite regress. I will explore whether and in which way this regress is vicious, and how our answers to these questions can inform a plausible account of stopping rules for good reasoning.