{"id":11826,"date":"2024-05-28T07:13:10","date_gmt":"2024-05-28T06:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/event\/epistemology-seminar-matthew-mcgrath-washington-university-in-st-louis\/"},"modified":"2024-06-27T10:39:26","modified_gmt":"2024-06-27T09:39:26","slug":"epistemology-seminar-matthew-mcgrath-washington-university-in-st-louis","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/event\/epistemology-seminar-matthew-mcgrath-washington-university-in-st-louis\/","title":{"rendered":"Epistemology Seminar: Matt McGrath (Washington University in St Louis)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Speaker:<\/strong> Matt McGrath (Washington University in St Louis)<\/p>\n<p><strong><i>Should have Known\u00a0<\/i>and Epistemically Appropriate Belief<\/strong><br \/>\n<span lang=\"EN-US\">Sometimes people don\u2019t know things they should have known. For instance, cardiologists should know about recent major developments that bear on their practice; if they don\u2019t know, they should have. Can what a person should have known matter to what they\u2019re epistemically appropriate to believe? Call the view that it can \u201cshould-have-known impurism.\u201d If the cardiologist believes the usual treatment for a certain type of heart disease is best but should have known that an alternative treatment outperformed it in a recent large study, it seems the cardiologist isn\u2019t believing as she should.\u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">In this paper, I dig into the reasoning behind or suggested by intuitions like this. Once we locate this reasoning, we can probe its structure, assess its quality, and explore variations of it, along with its relation to intuitions on the opposing \u201cpurist\u201d side. In the end, I argue that we can capture what the impurist gets right without accepting impurism. This is important because, as I argue, impurism faces serious problems.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Matt McGrath (Washington University in St Louis) Should have Known\u00a0and Epistemically Appropriate Belief Sometimes people don\u2019t know things they should have known. For instance, cardiologists should know about recent&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","_tribe_events_is_hybrid":"","_tribe_events_is_virtual":"","_tribe_events_virtual_video_source":"","_tribe_events_virtual_embed_video":"","_tribe_events_virtual_linked_button_text":"","_tribe_events_virtual_linked_button":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_embed_at":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_embed_to":[],"_tribe_events_virtual_show_on_event":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_on_views":"","_tribe_events_virtual_url":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[5],"class_list":["post-11826","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","hentry","tribe_events_cat-epistemology-seminar","cat_epistemology-seminar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/11826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/11826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11953,"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/11826\/revisions\/11953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11826"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=11826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}