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An Information-Theoretic Epistemology João C. Miranda 03 de Dezembro de 2024 Room B112.B Abstract: The information-theoretic accounts of belief and knowledge have proved successful in theorizing about belief's and knowledge's nature as well as about their logic. In this paper, we extend the information-theoretic approach to an account of credence, and show that this account allows us to draw significant connections with other notions in the literature – in particular, with Williamson's evidential probability and Moss's probabilistic knowledge. We furthermore develop an information-theoretic evaluative notion of epistemic obligation, and show that we can derive important normative consequences from the combination of the information-theoretic accounts of knowledge, belief, credence, and epistemic obligation – such as the knowledge norm of belief – as well as provide counterexamples to other popular epistemic norms – such as Lewis's Principal Principle. We'll conclude by addressing some objections to our model. In particular, we'll suggest that some strategies that have been proposed in the literature to address the concern that information-theoretic agents are too opinionated and too rational – topic-sensitivity and fragmentation – can also be used in defense of our account. (This is joint work with Bruno Jacinto) Calendário |
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