{"id":2095,"date":"2025-11-01T20:27:19","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T20:27:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cful.letras.ulisboa.pt\/lancog\/?p=2095"},"modified":"2026-02-20T15:46:40","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T15:46:40","slug":"seminar-series-in-analytic-philosophy-2025-26-session-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cful.demiurgos.eu\/lancog\/seminar-series-in-analytic-philosophy-2025-26-session-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Seminar Series in Analytic Philosophy 2025-26: Session 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>What is Purely Epistemic Normativity, and Why? A Study in Wolfian Epistemology<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Richard Pettigrew (University of Bristol)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">7 November 2025, 16:00 (Lisbon Time \u2013 WET)<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Faculdade de Letras de Lisboa<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sala Mattos Rom\u00e3o [C201.J] (Departamento de Filosofia)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Abstract:\u00a0<\/strong>What is the distinction between what we ought to believe\u00a0<em>simpliciter<\/em>\u00a0and what we ought to believe\u00a0<em>epistemically speaking<\/em>, and why do we draw that distinction? I motivate this question through a series of examples, consider various existing answers, and find them wanting. Then I propose and explore an alternative based on a version of Susan Wolf&#8217;s rule consequentialism transposed to the epistemic realm: the norms that determine what we ought to do epistemically speaking are those such that broad adherence to them across your epistemic community would give the best results from an epistemic point of view. I argue that norms that exhort us to believe only what we ought to believe epistemically speaking follow from this Wolfian version of epistemic rule consequentialism. In a coda, I offer an alternative account of the function of knowledge ascriptions that improves on Edward Craig\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This activity is funded by Portuguese national funds through FCT &#8211; Funda\u00e7\u00e3o para a Ci\u00eancia e a Tecnologia, I.P., within the project UID\/00310\/2025, Centro de Filosofia da Universidade de Lisboa<br \/>\n(<a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.54499\/UID\/00310\/2025\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.54499\/UID\/00310\/2025<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is Purely Epistemic Normativity, and Why? A Study in Wolfian Epistemology Richard Pettigrew (University of Bristol) &nbsp; 7 November 2025, 16:00 (Lisbon Time \u2013 WET) Faculdade de Letras de Lisboa Sala Mattos Rom\u00e3o [C201.J] (Departamento de Filosofia) &nbsp; Abstract:\u00a0What is the distinction between what we ought to believe\u00a0simpliciter\u00a0and what we ought to believe\u00a0epistemically speaking, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"federate","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cful.demiurgos.eu\/lancog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cful.demiurgos.eu\/lancog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cful.demiurgos.eu\/lancog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cful.demiurgos.eu\/lancog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cful.demiurgos.eu\/lancog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2095"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cful.demiurgos.eu\/lancog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2156,"href":"https:\/\/cful.demiurgos.eu\/lancog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2095\/revisions\/2156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cful.demiurgos.eu\/lancog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cful.demiurgos.eu\/lancog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cful.demiurgos.eu\/lancog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}