Epistemic Instrumentalism Explained
Do epistemic requirements vary along with facts about what promotes agents'' well-being? Epistemic instrumentalists say ''yes'', and thereby earn a lot of contempt. This contempt is a mistake on two counts. First, it is incorrectly based: the reasons typically given for it are misguided. Second, it fails to distinguish between first- and second-order epistemic instrumentalism; and, it happens, onl...
Do epistemic requirements vary along with facts about what promotes agents'' well-being? Epistemic instrumentalists say ''yes'', and thereby earn a lot of contempt. This contempt is a mistake on two counts. First, it is incorrectly based: the reasons typically given for it are misguided. Second, it fails to distinguish between first- and second-order epistemic instrumentalism; and, it happens, onl...
