Mistakes as revealing and as manifestations of competence

Synthese 198 (4):3289-3308 (2019)
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The final chapter of Elgin’s defends the claim that some mistakes mark significant epistemic achievements. Here, I extend Elgin’s analysis of the informativeness of mistakes for epistemic policing. I also examine the type of theory of competence that Elgin’s view requires, and suggest some directions in which this can be taken.

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Felipe Morales Carbonell
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True Enough.Catherine Z. Elgin - 2017 - Cambridge: MIT Press.
The aim and structure of physical theory.Pierre Maurice Marie Duhem - 1954 - Princeton,: Princeton University Press.
A virtue epistemology.Ernest Sosa - 2007 - New York: Oxford University Press.
Aboutness.Stephen Yablo - 2014 - Oxford: Princeton University Press.

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