Tragic Flaws

Item Type

Language

French

Abstract

In many tragic plays, the protagonist is brought down by a disaster that is a consequence of the protagonist's own error, his or her hamartia, the tragic flaw. Tragic flaws are disconcerting to the audience because they are not known or fully recognized by the protagonist—at least not until it is too late. In this essay, I take tragic flaws to be unreliable belief-forming dispositions that are unrecognized by us in some sense. I describe some different types of flaws and consider what we might do about them. Then I examine three types of policies for managing our tragic flaws: doxastic, dispositional, and methodological.

Subject

Ignorance
Social epistemology
Biases
Intellectual humility
Self-judgment

Publication Year

2021

Publication Date

2021-09-10

Source

Cambridge University Press

License

ISSN

2053-4477
2053-4485

Physical Description

pp. 1-21

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Tragic Flaws, dans Science & Ignorance, consulté le 21 Novembre 2024, https://ignorancestudies.inist.fr/s/science-ignorance/item/4694

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