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Epistemic Freedom
J. David Velleman
Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 70 (1989): 73 - 97
Area 1 Philosophy of Action
Area 2 Epistemology
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http://ssrn.com/abstract=1006906
Epistemic freedom is the freedom to affirm any one of several incompatible propositions without risk of being wrong. We sometimes have this freedom, strange as it seems, and our having it sheds some light on the topic of free will and determinism.