Centre for Research in Philosophy, Literature and The Arts Events, 2019/2020
Unless otherwise stated, CRPLA seminars take place on Tuesdays, 5:30-7:00pm in Room S0.11 (ground floor of Social Studies). All welcome. For further information, please contact Diarmiud Costello: Diarmuid.Costello@warwick.ac.uk
'Enquiry' Seminar Series
Location: By Zoom
Suspending Judgment: A Corrective
It is common to think of what is going on when we suspend judgment primarily in terms of a kind of doxastic state or attitude, typically called 鈥榮uspended judgment鈥�. Significant questions then arise concerning the nature, content and cognitive role of such states. And the project of answering these questions has been pursued by a number of writers in recent years, most notably Jane Friedman.
In this paper, I argue that this project rests on a mistake. Discourse concerning states of suspended judgment is largely equivocal and confused. And suspending judgment itself ought to be understood, not as a matter of being in, or coming to be in, any particular kind of doxastic state, but as a matter of refraining from judging. I end by exploring some of the consequences that this should be taken to have for recent work on suspending judgment.