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because my fallibility contradicts the demand that I always must act competently. Also, it doesn’t logically follow, from my strong preferences to do so, that I have to do so.
How to Stubbornly Refuse to Make Yourself Miserable About Anything-Yes, Anything
Albert Ellis
There is an interesting dilemma here for academic research – if the standards of evidence are too high, then little may be learnt, but if they are too low, what we learn (or think we learn) may not be reliable. __The world of policy-making and public action, however, is different from that of academic research. In that universe, we have good reason to make constructive use of experience. Indeed, without it, we would be deprived of rich sources of insight and forced to take decisions based on very limited knowledge.__
Sense and Solidarity
Jean Drèze
If we generalize from the pollution example, we can complete the translation as follows: (PIP1*) It is collectively rational for most generations to cooperate: (almost) every generation prefers the outcome produced by everyone cooperating over the outcome produced by no one cooperating. (PIP2*) It is individually rational for all generations not to cooperate: when each generation has the power to decide whether or not it will cooperate, each generation prefers not to cooperate, whatever the others do.
A Perfect Moral Storm
Stephen M. Gardiner
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