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  • Chapter 10 - Epistemic Oughts and Epistemic Dilemmas

  • from Part III - Theoretical Upshots
  • Mona Simion, University of Glasgow
  • Book:
    Resistance to Evidence
    Published online:
    16 February 2024
    Print publication:
    15 February 2024, pp 151-164
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    The following chapters examine the theoretical upshots of the positive epistemological view proposed in this book. The account developed so far delivers the result that epistemic justifiers constitute epistemic oughts. In this chapter, I discuss the worry that such accounts threaten to give rise to widely spread epistemic dilemmas between paradigmatic epistemic norms. I argue for a modest scepticism about epistemic dilemmas. In order to do that, I first point out that not all normative conflicts constitute dilemmas: more needs to be the case. Second, I look into the moral dilemmas literature and identify a set of conditions that need to be at work for a mere normative conflict to be a genuine normative dilemma. Last, I argue that while our epistemic life is peppered with epistemic normative conflict, epistemic dilemmas are much harder to find than we thought.