Being rational and being right /
Juan Comesaņa.
- First edition.
- xii, 222 pages ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages [213]-220) and index.
"In Being Rational and Being Right, Juan Comesaņa argues for a cluster of theses related to the rationality of action and belief. His starting point is that rational action requires rational belief but tolerates false belief. From there, Comesaņa provides a novel account of empirical evidence according to which said evidence consists of the content of undefeated experiences. This view, which Comesaņa calls "Experientialism," differs from the two main views of empirical evidence on offer nowadays: Factualism, according to which our evidence is what we know, and Psychologism, according to which our experiences themselves are evidence. He reasons that Experientialism fares better than these rival views in explaining different features of rational belief and action. Comesaņa embeds this discussion in a Bayesian framework, and discusses in addition the problem of normative requirements, the easy knowledge problem, and how Experientialism compares to Evidentialism, Reliabilism, and Comesaņa's own (now superseded) Evidentialist Reliabilism."--