Professor Richard Pettigrew (Bristol): 'From a Point of View'
The Faculty is delighted to welcome Professor Richard Pettigrew as the John Locke lecturer of 2025. Richard is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Bristol.
Lecture 3: 'Changing our point of view: evidence, inquiry, and doxastic crises'
In Lectures 1 and 2, I ask how we should respond to new evidence and how our uncertain beliefs should change as a result of logical reasoning and conceptual clarification. In Lecture 3, I draw again on the teleological account of rationality to ask when we should gather new evidence and when we should discard it; when we should direct our attention in a particular way and when we should not; and when we should undertake logical reasoning and conceptual clarification. This completes the picture of our epistemic life I have been outlining throughout the first half of this series of lectures
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