Willful blindness. Bandini, A. Revue philosophique de la France et de letranger, 143(3):391–406, September, 2018. Bibliographie_available: 0 Cairndomain: www.cairn-int.info Cite Par_available: 0 Publisher: P.U.F.
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The concept of willful blindness is rightfully considered a puzzling object for the philosophy of knowledge. Closely associated with that of denial, it seems to assume that one and the same subject could see and could nonetheless succeed, willfully, in not seeing that something is the case. This paper claims that this paradox is merely superficial and that it is not only perfectly rational to blind oneself willfully at times, but that it is also something one is sometimes perfectly entitled to do. Yet, in all cases, the agent must take responsibility for the beliefs and actions built on that very foundation.
@article{bandini_willful_2018,
	title = {Willful blindness},
	volume = {143},
	issn = {0035-3833},
	url = {https://www.cairn-int.info/journal-revue-philosophique-2018-3-page-391.htm},
	abstract = {The concept of willful blindness is rightfully considered a puzzling object for the philosophy of knowledge. Closely associated with that of denial, it seems to assume that one and the same subject could see and could nonetheless succeed, willfully, in not seeing that something is the case. This paper claims that this paradox is merely superficial and that it is not only perfectly rational to blind oneself willfully at times, but that it is also something one is sometimes perfectly entitled to do. Yet, in all cases, the agent must take responsibility for the beliefs and actions built on that very foundation.},
	language = {fr},
	number = {3},
	urldate = {2023-11-24},
	journal = {Revue philosophique de la France et de letranger},
	author = {Bandini, Aude},
	month = sep,
	year = {2018},
	note = {Bibliographie\_available: 0
Cairndomain: www.cairn-int.info
Cite Par\_available: 0
Publisher: P.U.F.},
	pages = {391--406},
}

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