Dumb and Dumbernull, Sophie Horowitz (University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Rice University)
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Recherches récentes en philosophie analytique
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Epistemologists often theorize about ideals of rationality. But humans are not ideally rational; far from it! What relevance do idealized notions have for us, since we can never hope to meet them? One possible answer to this challenge is that while we can’t hope to meet rational ideals, we can approximate or approach them. This is then meant to justify ideal theorizing, since figuring out the ideals will help us get closer to them. In this paper I explore some possibilities for spelling out this type of response in detail. I argue that the approximation account is less obvious than it might appear, and that idealizing epistemologists may need to look elsewhere to explain the relevance of rational ideals.
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