| FA-53244-07 | Research Programs: Fellowships for University Teachers | Jonathan Eric Adler | Can Reason Criticize and Control Itself? | 7/1/2008 - 6/30/2009 | $40,000.00 | Jonathan | Eric | Adler | | | | CUNY Research Foundation, Brooklyn College | Brooklyn | NY | 11210-2850 | USA | 2006 | Epistemology | Fellowships for University Teachers | Research Programs | 40000 | 0 | 40000 | 0 |
Self-control normally refers to reason’s ability to resist desires contrary to one’s judgment. My project is to complete a book on reason’s ability to control itself—to anticipate weaknesses in itself and to find ways to avoid or to mitigate them. The basic conceptual question is this: Since self-control by reason is self-control of reason, how can it be the judgment of reason (i.e. a reasoned judgment) not to listen to, or to censor, reason? The study develops a notion of epistemic authority (or deference) in relation to self-knowledge and forms of self-correction, and a new conception of fallibility. |