{"id":1529,"date":"2023-02-20T14:36:41","date_gmt":"2023-02-20T14:36:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cful.letras.ulisboa.pt\/lancog\/?p=1529"},"modified":"2023-02-20T14:36:41","modified_gmt":"2023-02-20T14:36:41","slug":"seminar-series-in-analytic-philosophy-2022-23-session-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cful.letras.ulisboa.pt\/lancog\/seminar-series-in-analytic-philosophy-2022-23-session-13\/","title":{"rendered":"Seminar Series in Analytic Philosophy 2022-23: Session 13"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>Epistemic Akrasia and the Nature of Mental Fragments<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Jo\u00e3o C. Miranda<\/p>\n<p>LanCog, University of Lisbon<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>24 February 2023, 16:00 (Lisbon Time \u2013 WET)<\/p>\n<p>Faculdade de Letras de Lisboa<\/p>\n<p>Sala Mattos Rom\u00e3o (Departamento de Filosofia)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Abstract:<\/strong> An agent S is epistemically akratic if and only if (i) S believes that p and (ii) S believes that they shouldn\u2019t believe that p. The main debate about epistemic akrasia concerns its characterization and explanation: what is needed is an account of what mechanisms make cases of epistemic akrasia possible. Greco (2014) and Kearl (2020) have defended fragmentalist accounts of epistemic akrasia: there is not one unique belief-formation system, and the possibility of epistemic akrasia rests on the possibility of conflict between the different systems. I\u2019ll argue that their versions fail, for their responses to pressing worries about the meta-epistemological theory that underlies them \u2013 epistemic expressivism \u2013 are unsatisfactory. I will then rescue fragmentalism by proposing a version that focuses, not on the linguistic\/non-linguistic nature of the systems, but on the constraints under which beliefs are formed. Doing so will allow me to appeal to well established literature in psychology about a distinction between explicit reasoning and heuristic-based reasoning (Gigerenzer, Todd and the ABC Research Group, 1999; Kanheman, 2011). I\u2019ll argue that, not only is there better empirical support for my version of fragmentalism, but it also avoids the problems that plagued Greco and Kearl\u2019s account.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Epistemic Akrasia and the Nature of Mental Fragments Jo\u00e3o C. Miranda LanCog, University of Lisbon &nbsp; 24 February 2023, 16:00 (Lisbon Time \u2013 WET) Faculdade de Letras de Lisboa Sala Mattos Rom\u00e3o (Departamento de Filosofia) &nbsp; Abstract: An agent S is epistemically akratic if and only if (i) S believes that p and (ii) S [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cful.letras.ulisboa.pt\/lancog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cful.letras.ulisboa.pt\/lancog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cful.letras.ulisboa.pt\/lancog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cful.letras.ulisboa.pt\/lancog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cful.letras.ulisboa.pt\/lancog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1529"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cful.letras.ulisboa.pt\/lancog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1530,"href":"https:\/\/cful.letras.ulisboa.pt\/lancog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1529\/revisions\/1530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cful.letras.ulisboa.pt\/lancog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cful.letras.ulisboa.pt\/lancog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cful.letras.ulisboa.pt\/lancog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}