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Norm conflicts and epistemic modals
Department of Social Psychology and Methodology, University of Freiburg, Germany.
KTH, Skolan för arkitektur och samhällsbyggnad (ABE), Filosofi och historia.ORCID-id: 0000-0002-9934-3833
2023 (Engelska)Ingår i: Cognitive Psychology, ISSN 0010-0285, E-ISSN 1095-5623, Vol. 145, s. 101591-Artikel i tidskrift (Refereegranskat) Published
Abstract [en]

Statements containing epistemic modals (e.g., "by spring 2023 most European countries may have the Covid-19 pandemic under control") are common expressions of epistemic uncertainty. In this paper, previous published findings (Knobe & Yalcin, 2014; Khoo & Phillips, 2018) on the opposition between Contextualism and Relativism for epistemic modals are re-examined. It is found that these findings contain a substantial degree of individual variation. To investigate whether participants differ in their interpretations of epistemic modals, an experiment with multiple phases and sessions is conducted to classify participants according to the three semantic theories of Relativism, Contextualism, and Objectivism. Through this study, some of the first empirical evidence for the kind of truth-value shifts postulated by semantic Relativism is presented. It is furthermore found that participants' disagreement judgments match their truth evaluations and that participants are capable of distinguishing between truth and justification. In a second experimental session, it is investigated whether participants thus classified follow the norm of retraction which Relativism uses to account for argumentation with epistemic modals. Here the results are less favorable for Relativism. In a second experiment, these results are replicated and the normative beliefs of participants concerning the norm of retraction are investigated following work on measuring norms by Bicchieri (2017). Again, it is found that on average participants show no strong preferences concerning the norm of retraction for epistemic modals. Yet, it was found that participants who had committed to Objectivism and had training in logic applied the norm of retraction to might-statements. These results present a substantial challenge to the account of argumentation with epistemic modals presented in MacFarlane (2014), as discussed.

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Elsevier BV , 2023. Vol. 145, s. 101591-
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Argumentation, Epistemic modals, Norm conflicts, Relativism, Retraction, Semantics, Truth conditions
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URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-337459DOI: 10.1016/j.cogpsych.2023.101591ISI: 001059403000001PubMedID: 37586285Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85170581929OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-337459DiVA, id: diva2:1802908
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