Statistical Resentment, Or: What’s Wrong with Acting, Blaming, and Believing on the Basis of Statistics AloneDavid Enoch (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Guildford GU2 7XH
United Kingdom
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Event begins at 16:10 BST.
Direct link to zoom meeting: https://surrey-ac.zoom.us/j/97959261887
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Abstract:
Statistical evidence – say, that 95% of your co-workers badmouth each other – can never render resenting your colleague appropriate, in the way that other evidence (say, the testimony of a reliable friend) can. The problem of statistical resentment is to explain why.
We put the problem of statistical resentment in several wider contexts: The context of the problem of statistical evidence in legal theory; the epistemological context – with problems like the lottery paradox for knowledge, epistemic impurism and doxastic wrongdoing; and the context of a wider set of examples of responses and attitudes that seem not to be appropriately groundable in statistical evidence.
Regrettably, we do not come up with a fully general, fully adequate, fully unified account of all the phenomena discussed. But we give reasons to believe that no such account is forthcoming, and we sketch a somewhat messier account that may be the best that can be had here.
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