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- Title
Explaining Higher-order Defeat.
- Authors
Tiozzo, Marco
- Abstract
Higher-order evidence appears to have the ability to defeat rational belief. It is not obvious, however, why exactly the defeat happens. In this paper, I consider two competing explanations of higher-order defeat: the "Objective Higher-Order Defeat Explanation" and the "Subjective Higher-Order Defat Explanation." According to the former explanation, possessing sufficiently strong higher-order evidence to indicate that one's belief about p fails to be rational is necessary and sufficient for defeating one's belief about p. I argue that this type of explanation is defective or at best collapses into the other type of explanation. According to the latter explanation, Believing that one's belief about p fails to be rational (in response to higher-order evidence about p) is necessary and sufficient for defeating one's belief about p. I argue that this type of explanation is better suited to explain higher-order defeat given that what one is rational to believe partly depends on the relations among one's doxastic attitudes. Finally, I address an peculiar feature of the Subjective Higher-Order Defeat Explanation: higher-order defeat becomes contingent on one's response to the higher-order evidence.
- Subjects
EXPLANATION; ATTITUDE (Psychology)
- Publication
Acta Analytica, 2023, Vol 38, Issue 3, p453
- ISSN
0353-5150
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s12136-022-00522-3