Abstract

GARCIA-RAMIREZ, Eduardo. Linguistic Practice, Content and Rationality without Insurance: About Tiempo, Pensamiento y Vulnerabilidad. Una investigación sobre la dinámica cognitiva by Paulo Faria. Anal. filos. [online]. 2024, vol.44, n.1, pp.141-156.  Epub May 16, 2023. ISSN 1851-9636.  http://dx.doi.org/10.36446/af.e971.

Faria (2021) offers an extraordinary discussion concerning topics that are rarely treated in relation with each other: change in mental content, its relevance for inferential validity and its consequences for agential responsibility (both in action and thought). Faria’s (2021) goal is to defend that the impermanence of content, the vulnerability of ordinary inferences, the role of luck and the lack of control in our thoughts and actions are inescapable elements of ordinary life. In this paper I will argue that Faria’s arguments are successful, yet I will cast doubt over the specific consequences that Faria draws from them. I will show that, even though there is in fact impermanence, vulnerability and luck, they are not overwhelming and, thus, do not modify our intuitive understanding of contents, beliefs and rationality.

Keywords : Anti-individualism; Transparency; Validity; Control.

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