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Epistemic Freedom

J. David Velleman
New York University - Department of Philosophy

THE POSSIBILITY OF PRACTICAL REASON, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000
Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. 70, pp. 73-97, 1989

Abstract:
Epistemic freedom is the freedom to affirm any one of several incompatible propositions without risk of being wrong. We sometimes have this freedom, strange as it seems, and our having it sheds some light on the topic of free will and determinism.

Keywords: action, free will, G.E.M Anscombe

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Date posted: August 19, 2007 ; Last revised: August 19, 2007

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Velleman, J. David, Epistemic Freedom. THE POSSIBILITY OF PRACTICAL REASON, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000; Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. 70, pp. 73-97, 1989. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1006906

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