Transparent failure of norms to keep up standards of belief

Location
ERI 149
Dates
Wednesday 21 March 2018 (13:00-14:00)
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Philosophy Work in Progress Seminar Series 2017/18

The Philosophy department's work in progress seminar is an opportunity for the members of staff at Birmingham to present the material they are working on to each other and to the department's postgraduate students.
The seminar meets roughly on fortnightly Wednesdays from 13:00 to 14.00 in the ERI. All welcome!

Abstract

We argue that the most plausible characterisation of the norm of truth—it is permissible to believe that p if and only if p is true—is unable to explain transparency in doxastic deliberation, a task for which it is claimed to be equipped. Those attracted to normativism about belief for its perceived explanatory credentials had better look elsewhere.