What is good thinking? Comments on Mona Simion’s <i>Shifty Speech and Independent Thought</i>

McKenna, Robin (2024) What is good thinking? Comments on Mona Simion’s <i>Shifty Speech and Independent Thought</i>. Inquiry, ahead- (ahead-). pp. 1-13.

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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0020174x.2024.2313188

Abstract

Mona Simion's Shifty Speech and Independent Thought argues for epistemic independence—the independence of good thinking from practical considerations. Along the way, she argues against “shifty” views of knowledge and knowledge ascriptions, as well as against those who have tried to preserve the independence of knowledge from practical considerations by accepting the dependence of the epistemic normativity of assertion on practical considerations. In my discussion, I start by highlighting some of Simion's main claims and reconstructing her main lines of argument. I then raise some minor concerns about her underlying methodology and some bigger picture concerns about some of her background theoretical assumptions and her argument for epistemic independence.

Item Type:	Article
Divisions:	Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > School of the Arts
Depositing User:	Symplectic Admin
Date Deposited:	27 Feb 2024 11:34
Last Modified:	17 Mar 2024 19:35
DOI:	10.1080/0020174x.2024.2313188
Open Access URL:	https://doi.org/10.1080/0020174X.2024.2313188
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URI:	https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3178911