Dear all,
This is to remind you that the following two events will take place tomorrow:
First, the PEPTalk on Responsible AI, Machine Ethics, and Logic, featuring Jan Broersen and Marija Slavkovik, and moderated by Aybüke Özgün. It will take place at 12:00 -13:00. The details of the event and the registration can be found here: https://www.uva.nl/en/shared-content/faculteiten/en/faculteit-der-geesteswet...
Second, our regular LIRa session. We will use our recurring zoom link: https://uva-live.zoom.us/j/92907704256?pwd=anY3WkFmQVhLZGhjT2JXMlhjQVl1dz09 (Meeting ID: 929 0770 4256, Passcode: 036024). You can find the details of the LIRa talk below.
Speaker: Hein Duijf
Date and Time: Thursday, May 6th 2021, 16:30-18:00, Amsterdam time.
Venue: online.
Title: Should one be open-minded?
Abstract. I investigate the common intuition that open-mindedness is virtuous, while its opposite – close-mindedness – is vicious. I defend a positive claim that open-mindedness sometimes helps us achieve some basic epistemic goals. However, I also defend a negative claim that open-mindedness sometimes hinders the achievement of some basic epistemic goals. Open-mindedness is only epistemically beneficial if one has decent evaluative skills. These evaluative skills can be understood in several ways: as the social skill to determine whether another person is trustworthy or has mutual interests; or as the evaluative skill to determine whether certain argument or piece of evidence is truth-conducive. In the absence of sufficient evaluative skills and for low degrees of open mindedness, it seems plausible that open-mindedness will not be epistemically fruitful.
Hope to see you there!
The LIRa team