PHLB20H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Enfant Terrible, Evidentialism, Pragmatism
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Week 6- lec. 11 notes part 1 and 2. If you are in an echo chamber your trust mechanisms have been deeply manipulated and thus, any epistemic actions taken are perverted: scrutinizing any evidence that comes their way (nguyen) gives us a peak at ethics of. The ship capsizes and everyone drowns: clifford says: the ship-owner is guilty of the death of the people who died on his ship. Even though he really sincerely believed that the ship was seaworthy. He had no right to believe on such evidence as was before him . He failed to carry out this duty/responsibility to inquire into the truth of his belief, instead brushing the doubt away. Clifford says: a belief is wrong not because of the bad consequences it (on its own) leads to. Rather, it"s about what you did/didn"t do in inquiring into its truth. It also applies in cases where one"s belief doesn"t lead to any bad consequences.
