There Are Diachronic Norms of Rationality

Thought: A Journal of Philosophy 4 (1):38-45 (2015)
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Some philosophers have recently argued that there are no diachronic norms of epistemic rationality, that is, that there are no norms regarding how you should change your attitudes over time. I argue that this is wrong on the grounds that there are norms governing reasoning

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