Judgment's aimless heart

Noûs Pub Date : 2024-04-15 DOI:10.1111/nous.12497
Matthew Vermaire
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It's often thought that when we reason to new judgments in inference, we aim at believing the truth, and that this aim of ours can explain important psychological and normative features of belief. I reject this picture: the structure of aimed activity shows that inference is not guided by a truth-aim. This finding clears the way for a positive understanding of how epistemic goods feature in our doxastic lives. We can indeed make sense of many of our inquisitive and deliberative activities as undertaken in pursuit of such goods; but the evidence-guided inferences in which those activities culminate will require a different theoretical approach.
审判者漫无目的的心
人们通常认为,当我们在推理中推理出新的判断时,我们的目的是相信真理,我们的这一目的可以解释信念的重要心理和规范特征。我反对这种看法:目的活动的结构表明,推理并不是以真理为目的的。这一发现为我们正面理解认识论产品如何在我们的逻各斯生活中发挥作用扫清了道路。我们确实可以把我们的许多探究和商议活动理解为是为了追求这些物品而进行的;但这些活动最终导致的以证据为指导的推论将需要一种不同的理论方法。
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