Varieties of epistemic risk

Duncan Pritchard

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Abstract

My interest is in how shifting from an anti-luck epistemology to an anti-risk epistemology can enable us to make sense of some important epistemic phenomena. After rehearsing the more general arguments for preferring anti-risk epistemology over its anti-luck cousin, I argue that a further advantage of this transition lies in how it puts us in a better position to understand certain trade-offs with regard to epistemic risk. In particular, there can be ways of forming beliefs that are epistemically low risk along one axis of evaluation while being epistemically high risk along another axis of evaluation. I further show how this idea plays out in terms of collaborative inquiries, where the framework provided by anti-risk epistemology enables us to understand how epistemic risk can be distributed across such a collective enterprise and thereby effectively managed.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)9-23
Number of pages15
JournalActa Analytica
Volume37
Issue number1
Early online date19 Aug 2021
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Mar 2022
Externally publishedYes

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