Knowing Our Limits.

In each of the next five chapters, weaving epistemic humility together with trenchant challenges, Ballantyne provides a range of reasons to doubt that our controversial beliefs should be held with much confidence, if they should be held at all. Regulative epistemology, the project of providing practical guidance for forming and holding reasonable beliefs, has seen a few prominent defenses in recent years. One answer is that doxastic openness is linked, not to suspension of judgment, but to what Ballantyne calls I tolerance for self-conflict i . [Extracted from the article]