On "epistemic permissiveness"

Anthony Brueckner

Alex Bundy

pp. 165-177

in: Claudio de Almeida, Stephen Hetherington (eds), Topics in contemporary epistemology, Synthese 188 (2), 2012.

Abstract

In “Epistemic Permissiveness”, Roger White presents several arguments against Extreme Permissivism, the view that there are possible cases where, given one’s total evidence, it would be rational to either believe P, or to believe ∼P. In this paper, we carefully reconstruct White’s arguments and then argue that they do not succeed.