Intellectual Trust in Oneself and Others [Paperback]

A provocative account of the primacy of intellectual trust and authority.To what degree should we rely on our own resources and methods to form opinions about important matters? To what degree should we depend on various authorities, such as a recognized expert or a social tradition?In this novel and provocative account of intellectual trust and authority, Richard Foley argues that it can be reasonable to have intellectual trust in oneself even though it is not possible to provide a defense of the reliability of one's faculties, methods, and opinions that does not beg the question.To what degree should we rely on our own resources and methods to form opinions about important matters? To what degree should we depend on various authorities, such as a recognized expert or a social tradition?In this novel and provocative account of intellectual trust and authority, Richard Foley argues that it can be reasonable to have intellectual trust in oneself even though it is not possible to provide a defense of the reliability of one's faculties, methods, and opinions that does not beg the question.To what degree should we rely on our own resources and methods to form opinions about important matters? To what degree should we depend on various authorities, such as a recognized expert or a social tradition? In this novel and provocative account of intellectual trust and authority, Richard Foley argues that it can be reasonable to have intellectual trust in oneself even though it is not possible to provide a defense of the reliability of one's faculties, methods, and opinions that does not beg the question.Acknowledgements; Part I. Intellectual Trust in Oneself: 1. The importance of intellectual self-trust; 2. Intellectual self-trust, rational belief and invulnerability to self-criticism; 3. Empirical challenges to self-trust; Part II. Intellectual Trust in Others and in One's Own Future and Past Self: 4. Self-trust and the authority of others; 5. Past opinion and current opinil#)