PHIL 164 Lecture 16: 2:29 Should informed consent be based on rational beliefs
24 Aug 2016
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What is rationality: practical rationality, adopting suitable means for one"s ends, doing what one has most reason to do, epistemic rationality, adopting suitable beliefs, believing what one has most reason to believe. Example: practical rationality: i want to be warm, i need to close windows to be warm, rational to close the windows. Example: epistemic rationality: this looks like a dog, there is no evidence of trickery, rational to believe it is a dog. Autonomy and true beliefs: to want something, you need to know what it is. It is rational for a person to perform some act if there would be a good reason to perform that act is that facts were as he/she believes them to be. John knows this path is the shortest route but doesn"t know there is a land mine in the path. The rational choice can be a bad choice if someone if ignorant.
