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 1017