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Chapter 4 - Knowledge and Seemingly Risky Actions

from Part I - Beings of Thought in Action

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 June 2021

Andy Mueller
Affiliation:
Goethe-Universität Frankfurt Am Main
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Here, I argue that knowledge-level justification for p suffices to make it rationally permissible to treat p as a reason for action. I will arrive at this conclusion indirectly, by first defending the sufficiency direction of the knowledge norm for practical reasoning (KRS) in sections 4.1–4.4 against popular counterexamples. In section 4.5, I consider why our intuitions about the counterexamples are misleading. In section 4.6, by running the subtraction argument presented in Chapter 2, I argue that knowledge-level justification for believing p suffices in all contexts for rational permissibility and I point out how this view still vindicates part of the knowledge-first project.

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Beings of Thought and Action
Epistemic and Practical Rationality
, pp. 81 - 106
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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