Curating Our Epistemic Lives: On the Permissibility of Choices to be Ignorant

Malone, Philippa

doi:10.26180/5e31de8a3e3c6

Curating Our Epistemic Lives: On the Permissibility of Choices to be Ignorant

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posted on 2020-01-29, 19:35 authored by Philippa Malone

This thesis considers whether we should be allowed make choices to be ignorant. I discuss this question by considering how choices to be ignorant affect our ability to make rational choices, to act morally, and be confident in our beliefs.

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Principal supervisor

Suzanne Killmister

Additional supervisor 1

Toby Handfield

Additional supervisor 2

Robert Mark Simpson

Year of Award

2020

Department, School or Centre

School of Philosophical, Historical & International Studies

Course

Master of Arts

Degree Type

MASTERS

Campus location

Australia

Faculty

Faculty of Arts

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Keywords

Epistemology Understanding Ignorance Epistemic Injustice Decision Theory Transformative Experience Philosophy

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Curating Our Epistemic Lives: On the Permissibility of Choices to be Ignorant

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Additional supervisor 1

Additional supervisor 2

Year of Award

Department, School or Centre

Course

Degree Type

Campus location

Faculty

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