Uncertainty and the Unimaginable
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| dc.creator | Svet, Oleg | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2022-02-08T19:03:05Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2022-02-08T19:03:05Z | |
| dc.date.created | 2022-02-08 | |
| dc.date.issued | 2022-02-08 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10822/1063112 | |
| dc.description.abstract | How much can we “know”? In this essay, I sketch one stance on this question that, broadly speaking, posits that the resources of the human mind have some insurmountable limits, and that, as a result, the right answers to hard questions that we are perpetually uncertain about are literally unknowable and unimaginable. I critique this stance on conceptual, ethical, and empirical grounds but frame no alternative hypothesis. | en_US |
| dc.language | English | |
| dc.rights.uri | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ | |
| dc.title | Uncertainty and the Unimaginable | en_US |
| dc.type | Working Paper | en_US |
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