{"id":9443,"date":"2023-01-06T17:23:15","date_gmt":"2023-01-06T17:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/event\/ceppa-talk-online-only-catherine-elgin-harvard\/"},"modified":"2023-04-06T14:38:27","modified_gmt":"2023-04-06T13:38:27","slug":"ceppa-talk-online-only-catherine-elgin-harvard","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/event\/ceppa-talk-online-only-catherine-elgin-harvard\/","title":{"rendered":"CEPPA Talk (online only) \u2013 Catherine Elgin (Harvard)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Location:<\/strong> Teams (online only)<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>Title: <\/strong>Epistemic Dynamics<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>Abstract:\u00a0<\/strong>Epistemic agents are finite and fallible.\u00a0 Our range is limited and some of what we accept is, no doubt, flawed.\u00a0 To achieve our epistemic and practical objectives, we devise methods and practices that foster correction, refinement, and expansion of our current epistemic commitments. Traditional epistemology maintains that epistemic acceptability requires non-fortuitously justified true belief, where non-fortuitousness insures that the justification and the truth maker align. If so, reflective equilibrium is at best indicative of acceptability.\u00a0 I argue otherwise.\u00a0\u00a0 Reflective equilibrium is constitutive of epistemic acceptability.\u00a0 Because a network of cognitive commitments in reflective equilibrium is as reasonable as any available alternative in the epistemic circumstances, it is worthy of acceptance.\u00a0 That does not make it perfect or permanently acceptable.\u00a0 Such a network is susceptible of and probably in need of improvement.\u00a0 But it is the best we can currently do and provides a suitable platform for improvement.\u00a0 I argue that such a network should be designed to foster, not merely to allow for, further gains.\u00a0 It should support epistemic leveraging.\u00a0 That requires that it enable critical reflection about its own ends and means, enabling epistemic agents to recognize opportunities for and obstacles to improvement.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Co-hosted with ECT.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Location: Teams (online only) Title: Epistemic Dynamics Abstract:\u00a0Epistemic agents are finite and fallible.\u00a0 Our range is limited and some of what we accept is, no doubt, flawed.\u00a0 To achieve our&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":[20],"class_list":["post-9443","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","hentry","tribe_events_cat-ceppa-talk","cat_ceppa-talk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/9443","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":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/9443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9747,"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/9443\/revisions\/9747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9443"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=9443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}