The limitations of the open mind:
When we should engage with those we disagree with? Jeremy Fantl argues that sometimes we can know that arguments for controversial ideas go wrong even without engaging critically with them or figuring out where they err. Sometimes we shouldn't engage critically with an argument and, if we do en...
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| Zusammenfassung: | When we should engage with those we disagree with? Jeremy Fantl argues that sometimes we can know that arguments for controversial ideas go wrong even without engaging critically with them or figuring out where they err. Sometimes we shouldn't engage critically with an argument and, if we do engage, we shouldn't engage open-mindedly |
| Beschreibung: | xviii, 229 Seiten Illustrationen 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 0198807953 9780198807957 |
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Preface ix
Part I. The Epistemology of Open-Mindedness
L Open-Mindedness 3
1.1 Open-Mindedness Toward Arguments 3
1.2 Conceptions of Open-Mindedness 5
1.3 Open-Mindedness and Outright Belief 18
1.4 Conclusion 25
2. A Defense of (a Different Kind of) Dogmatism 27
2.1 Knowledge and Closed-Mindedness 27
2.2 Forward-Looking Dogmatism 29
2.3 The Case for DogmatismFL 34
2.4 Conclusion 48
3. The Epistemic Efficacy of Amateurism 49
3.1 Coins and Counterarguments 49
3.2 Higher-Order Evidence 52
3.3 The Epistemic Efficacy of Amateurism 55
3.4 The Novice Knowledge Principle and the Case for the Other Side 70
3.5 Conclusion 73
4. Psychic Phenomena and the Existence of God 75
4.1 Sources of Knowledge 75
4.2 Felt Obviousness 76
4.3 Prima Facie Goat and Atheistic Knowledge 83
4.4 Goat and Atheistic Knowledge, Undefeated 86
4.4.1 The fine-tuning argument 86
4.4.2 Statistical arguments for psi 94
4.5 Conclusion: The Position of the Expert 99
Part II. The Ethics of Participation in Argumentation
5. The Obligation to Engage 103
5.1 Introduction 103
5.2 Is the Obligation a Role Ought? 105
5.3 The Duty to Maximize Good Epistemic Consequences 116
5.4 The Rights of Disputants 122
5.5 Conclusion 127
viii CONTENTS
6. Against Open-Minded Engagement (for Some People) 128
6.1 Introduction 128
6.2 The Case Against Open-Mindedness 129
6.3 From Knowledge to Closed-Mindedness 132
6.3.1 Worries about the linking premise 132
6.3.2 The argument for the linking premise 136
6.4 Dealing with the Arguments for Open-Minded Engagement 150
7. Against Closed-Minded Engagement (in Some Situations) 154
7.1 The Pitfalls of Closed-Minded Engagement 154
7.2 The Pitfalls of Insincerity 159
7.3 The Pitfalls of Sincerity 171
8. On Inviting Problematic Speakers to Campus 177
8.1 Introduction 177
8.2 Learning from Problematic Speakers 179
8.3 The Case Against Inviting (Some) Problematic Speakers 184
8.3.1 Problematic speakers and psychological harm 184
8.3.2 Problematic speakers and intrinsic harm 189
8.3.3 Problematic speakers and the respect for truth 198
8.4 Conclusion 201
References 203
Index 223
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