Online only<\/a><\/p>\nTitle: Idealization in Epistemology<\/strong><\/p>\nAbstract: I\u2019ll present some material from my recently published book, Idealization in Epistemology: A Modest Modeling Approach<\/em>. After explaining what I mean by \u201cmodest\u201d modeling, and why I take it to provide an attractive framework for thinking about epistemology, I\u2019ll apply that framework to two specific debates. First, I\u2019ll consider the objections to Bayesian models of learning that they go wrong in representing the inputs to learning as certain (strict conditionalization), or, even when not certain, as immune to undermining defeat (Jeffrey conditionalization). I’ll argue that these objections should trouble us much less once we\u2019re modest modelers. Second, I\u2019ll consider the argument that it\u2019s computationally infeasible for limited agents like us to make extensive use of probabilities in thought. I\u2019ll argue that this argument targets an implausibly immodest vision of the cognitive role of probabilistic thinking. When aimed at an appropriately modest conception of the role of probabilities in both descriptive and normative decision theory, the argument fails.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Speaker: Daniel Greco (Yale University)
\nDate and Time: Thursday, March 21st 2024, 16:30-18:00
\nVenue: \u00a0Online only
\nTitle: Idealization in Epistemology
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