Critical Fallibilism Real World Examples

[Elliot]

Examples of people doing CF-type or CF-contradicting things.

[Elliot]

Jurors from Elizabeth Holmes trial break silence after guilty verdicts l GMA - YouTube

The jury explicitly used weighted factors not decisive judgments (and they got it wrong, only finding her guilty of financial stuff not medical malpractice stuff. she’s going to get a much lighter sentence than she should. there were multiple reasons for getting it wrong and epistemology is one).

[Max]

From Academic Epistemology - #34 by Max (I expected a special cross-reference link to show up here when I linked to this thread, but it didn’t so I’ll quote what I wrote here)

@Max

I noticed something while reading RP’s paper the other day – an explicitly anti-yes/no and anti-paths-forward bit. I think, more broadly, it’s anti-Popper, too (including being anti-CR/CF). I thought it was notable:

Upon reflection, it surprises me that so few epistemologists have heeded Alston’s call for pluralism about the concept of justification (Alston, 2005). On this view, there are a number of concepts that have equally good claim to be our concept of justification and there is no concept that has a better claim than these.

It’s notable because the claim “there are a number of concepts that have equally good claim to be our concept of justification” is explicitly something that yes/no and paths forward would help resolve. More broadly, CF/CR both reject the idea that we should accept multiple contradictory ideas simultaneously (an idea that RP seems to be adducing, or attempting to, at least).

[Elliot]

Corporations vs. the demarcation problem

Lots in here about the lack of Paths Forward in the world.