Moral-Epistemic Scrupulosity: A Cross-Framework Failure Mode of Truth-Seeking
Crossposted from https://substack.com/home/post/p-183478095 Epistemic status: Personal experience with a particular failure mode of reasoning and introspection that seems to appear within different philosophical frameworks (discussed here are rationality and Tibetan Buddhism), involving intolerance of felt uncertainty, over-indexing on epistemic rigour, compulsive questioning of commitments, and moralisation of "correct" thinking itself....
Jan 1016
I'm glad it's been helpful for your work and look forward to reading about it!
Re: this internal depression/ADHD conflict - that seems like a recipe for a very punishing inner dialogue. Definitely sounds like the kind of self-judgment I mean, just with psychiatric, not moralistic framing. I don't use this terminology, but I do notice some self-criticism of both my scattered impulsive unfocussed parts and the slower, reflective ones. It's like two internal factions fighting over what kind of mental state you "should" have, how a mind "should" think and feel, how one "should" make decisions, all of which is totally arbitrary...