Final Report Summary - EUT (Epistemic Utility Theory: Foundations and Applications)
The main achievements of this project are as follows:
- We have offered a novel characterisation of the measures of accuracy.
- We have offered accuracy-first justifications for a number of credal norms, such as Probabilism, Conditionalization and related norms, the Principal Principle and related norms, and Principle of Indifference and related norms.
- We have offered a thoroughly investigation into the problem of peer disagreement from an accuracy-first perspective.
- We have extended the remit of accuracy-first epistemology from individual epistemology to social epistemology, where we have justified the so-called linear pooling rule for aggregating probabilistic judgements.
- By responding to a number of objections that had been made against the accuracy-first framework, we have secured the foundations of that approach.
- We have begun to explore how the notion of probabilistic knowledge might be treated in the accuracy-first framework, and we have argued for particular consequences of doing so.
- We have considered the consequence of the accuracy-first approach for the question of how categorical beliefs relate to credences.