Epistemic consequentialism and epistemic enkrasia

Abstract

Askell investigates what the epistemic consequentialist will say about epistemic enkrasia principles , principles that instruct one not to adopt a belief state that one takes to be irrational. She argues that a certain epistemic enkrasia principle for degrees of belief can be shown to maximize expected accuracy, and thus that a certain kind of epistemic consequentialist is committed to such a principle. But this is bad news for such an epistemic consequentialist, according to Askell, because epistemic enkrasia principles are problematic.