Generalists daily make poor evidence-based decisions because regulatory and ethics committees fail them and drug companies habitually misrepresent products. The pervasiveness of this perversion – at least overseas – is best illustrated by the equivalent of R131.4 billion in healthcare fraud settlements made by pharmaceutical corporates in the USA over the last 10 years, with the most recent ind...

I argue that we can reason not only to new beliefs but basically any change in attitude think of, including the abandonment of belief (contra John Broome), acquisition non-belief attitudes like relief and admiration, elimination same. To for this position, which call generalism, defend a sufficient condition on reasoning, roughly is expressed by conclusion an argument be convinced by. then prod...

There is an inconsistency between the access we have to our conscious lives and Humean thesis of causal generalism. This was first drawn attention by John Hawthorne, whose argument withstands a number objections. Nevertheless, it has weaknessess. The premise must be weakened if Humeans are compelled accept it, consequently, second will stronger retain validity. I shore up case against Humeanism...