Title: Burning Bridges? Rationality’s Fixpoint and Disagreements about Logic
Abstract: This draft has two main components. First, it clarifies and discusses Michael G. Titelbaum’s controversial Fixed Point Thesis, which is a theme in several debates of contemporary epistemology including the debates on peer disagreement, epistemic akrasia, and higher-order evidence. Second, it relates the initial discussion of Titelbaum’s thesis to the topic of Logical Disagreement in general and disagreements concerning bridge principles in particular. Eventually it’s argued that the epistemological repercussions of accepting the Fixed Point Thesis are so severe that the thesis must be rejected even if this means that states of epistemic akrasia can sometimes be rational