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LOCATION:Zoom link: https://rutgers.zoom.us/j/91702783130?pwd=Q1hDSU5HelI0VVNsYTBKMG YzOHQwZz09 URL;VALUE=URI:https://philosophy.rutgers.edu/events/department-calendar/icalrepeat.detail /2020/10/29/598/-/philosophy-break-it-down-lecture-prof-matt-mcgrath-suspen ding-judgment-what-is-it-and-how-is-it-justified?tmpl=component DESCRIPTION:
The Department of Philosophy Fall 2020 Break It Down For Me Lecture Seri es
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Prof. Matt McGrath giving a talk entitled, "Suspending Judgment: What is i t and how is it Justified?"
Abstract:
E pistemologists like to set things up this way: faced with the question of w hether a proposition is true, you have three doxastic options: you can beli eve the proposition, disbelieve it, or suspend judgment on it. There is an enormous literature on what belief and how to think about how it is justifi ed. And usually disbelief is taken to be just belief in the negation. There is a considerably smaller literature on suspension of judgment and its jus tification, especially in “analytic epistemology” since Gettier. But the to pic has come to the fore recently. Here’s a bit about why it matters. Belie f is usually taken to be something we have only indirect control over. When philosophers think about how this control looks, we usually think about Pa scal: “Go then and take holy water, and have masses said; belief will come… ” But a much more common way we seem to exert indirect control over beliefs is through suspension of judgment. You might suspend judgment about gossip you hear till you get better information; or about a political scandal unt il you read the NYTimes report. We speak of suspension using active languag e, “I’m going to suspend judgment until I talk to him myself” or “Jurors, y ou must suspend judgment until all the evidence is presented.” All this sug gests that suspending judgment is something we do, broadly speaking, someth ing agential. I’ll argue this is right and explore some ramifications for e pistemology.
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Topic: Break it Down: Matt McGrath
Time: Oct 2 9, 2020 03:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
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