Egan, Andy and Elga, Adam (2005) I Can’t Believe I’m Stupid. [Preprint]

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Abstract

It is bad news to find out that one's cognitive or perceptual faculties are defective. Furthermore, it’s not always transparent how one ought to revise one's beliefs in light of such news. Two sorts of news should be distinguished. On the one hand, there is news that a faculty is unreliable -- that it doesn't track the truth particularly well. On the other hand, there is news that a faculty is anti-reliable -- that it tends to go positively wrong. These two sorts of news call for extremely different responses. We provide accounts of these responses, and prove bounds on the degree to which one can reasonably count oneself as mistaken about a given subject matter.

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Item Type:	Preprint
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID Egan, Andy Elga, Adam
Additional Information:	Forthcoming in _Philosophical Perspectives_. Please cite published version.
Keywords:	anti-expert, reliability, unreliability, undermining, brier score, expertise
Subjects:	Specific Sciences > Probability/Statistics General Issues > Decision Theory Specific Sciences > Psychology
Depositing User:	Adam Elga
Date Deposited:	04 Sep 2005
Last Modified:	07 Oct 2010 15:13
Item ID:	2432
Subjects:	Specific Sciences > Probability/Statistics General Issues > Decision Theory Specific Sciences > Psychology
Date:	September 2005
URI:	https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/2432

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