A Normativity Wager for Skeptics
نویسندگان
چکیده
Several philosophers have recently advanced wager-based arguments for the existence of irreducibly normative truths or against nihilism. Here I consider whether these would cause a Pyrrhonian skeptic to lose her skepticism. conclude they not do so directly. However, if prompted different decision problem, which call normativity wager skeptics, be motivated attempt act in accordance with any reasons she might subject. Consideration will inevitably skepticism, but there are at least three routes by it might: first, considering agent may spontaneously (non-rationally) acquire belief; second, can motivate herself belief. Via either indirect, non-rational routes, cease skeptic. Thus, consideration value, even does supply rational argument that dissuade skeptics. In addition, possibility third (rational) route
منابع مشابه
Cardinal Arithmetic for Skeptics
When modern set theory is applied to conventional mathematical problems, it has a disconcerting tendency to produce independence results rather than theorems in the usual sense. The resulting preoccupation with “consistency” rather than “truth” may be felt to give the subject an air of unreality. Even elementary questions about the basic arithmetical operations of exponentiation in the context ...
متن کاملThe Wager
The PortraitPrograms Project grew out of hyperinterdisciplinarianism of the famed Gigabase Sculpture Group,l in turn stimulated by recent cutbacks in government support for the arts. The National Endowment for the Humanities and the National Science Foundation had jointly funded the Gigabase Sculpture Project to foster the literary/musical genre of composing genetic codes for novel organisms. L...
متن کاملNormativity, Necessity and Tense: A Recipe for Homebaked Normativity
A reductive analysis of a concept decomposes it into more basic constituent parts. Metaethicists today are in almost unanimous agreement that normative language and concepts cannot be reductively analyzed into entirely nonnormative language and concepts. Basic normative concepts are widely thought to be primitive or elemental in our thought, and therefore to admit of no further (reductive) expl...
متن کاملQCD Sum Rules for Skeptics
A new Monte-Carlo based uncertainty analysis is introduced to quantitatively determine the predictive ability of QCD sum rules. A comprehensive analysis of ground state ρ-meson and nucleon spectral properties is performed. Many of the findings contradict the conventional wisdom of both practitioners and skeptics alike. Associations between the phenomenological fit parameters are particularly in...
متن کاملResponse: A Quest and a Wager
Jed Rose: I think we are far from exploiting the full potential of nicotine itself as a replacement for smoking. At present, fewer than 10 percent of people using nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) achieve longterm smoking cessation. I think the success rate is low because we haven’t yet learned to administer nicotine in a way that reproduces the full effect of nicotine obtained from smoking. A...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Topoi
سال: 2023
ISSN: ['1518-3319', '2237-101X']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11245-022-09865-3