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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 2: 'On Uncertainty: priors, credal hinges, and epistemic risk'
In Lecture 2, I aim to fill two apparently independent gaps in the inventory of norms I enumerated in Lecture 1: further norms that govern our initial point of view, before we acquire any evidence; and norms that say how our uncertain beliefs should change when we gain new representational resources, such as concepts or logical capacities or awareness of new objects. In fact, I argue that both gaps should be filled in the same way. I offer a particular reading William James’ essay ‘The Will to Believe’, and I build on this to understand how we should answer both questions.
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