Epistemic Consequentialism, Truth Fairies and Worse Fairies

Andow, James (2017) Epistemic Consequentialism, Truth Fairies and Worse Fairies. Philosophia, 45 (3). pp. 987-993. ISSN 0048-3893

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Abstract

Direct Epistemic Consequentialism faces the Truth Fairy. Indirect Epistemic Consequentialism promises to avoid this issue. But there are worse fairies than the Truth Fairy. There is the Worse Fairy. The case of the Worse Fairy helps demonstrate that epistemic consequentialists who would solve problems like the Truth Fairy by ‘going indirect’ face a dilemma.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	epistemic consequentialism,rationality,truth fairy,worse fairy
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities > School of Politics, Philosophy, Language and Communication Studies
UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > Philosophy
Related URLs:	http://link.springer.com/10.1007/s11406-...
Depositing User:	Pure Connector
Date Deposited:	18 Jan 2018 16:30
Last Modified:	22 Mar 2024 01:19
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/66010
DOI:	10.1007/s11406-017-9833-0

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