Is choice blindness a case of self-ignorance?
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Is choice blindness a case of self-ignorance? / Bortolotti, Lisa; Sullivan-Bissett, Ema.
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T1 - Is choice blindness a case of self-ignorance?
AU - Bortolotti, Lisa
AU - Sullivan-Bissett, Ema
PY - 2019/9/28
Y1 - 2019/9/28
N2 - When subject to the choice-blindness effect, an agent gives reasons for making choice B, moments after making the alternative choice A. Choice blindness has been studied in a variety of contexts, from consumer choice and aesthetic judgement to moral and political attitudes. The pervasiveness and robustness of the effect is regarded as powerful evidence of self-ignorance. Here we compare two interpretations of choice blindness. On the choice error interpretation, when the agent gives reasons she is in fact wrong about what her choice is. On the choice change interpretation, when the agent gives reasons she is right about what her choice is, but she does not realise that her choice has changed. In this paper, we spell out the implications of the two interpretations of the choice-blindness effect for self-ignorance claims and offer some reasons to prefer choice change to choice error.
AB - When subject to the choice-blindness effect, an agent gives reasons for making choice B, moments after making the alternative choice A. Choice blindness has been studied in a variety of contexts, from consumer choice and aesthetic judgement to moral and political attitudes. The pervasiveness and robustness of the effect is regarded as powerful evidence of self-ignorance. Here we compare two interpretations of choice blindness. On the choice error interpretation, when the agent gives reasons she is in fact wrong about what her choice is. On the choice change interpretation, when the agent gives reasons she is right about what her choice is, but she does not realise that her choice has changed. In this paper, we spell out the implications of the two interpretations of the choice-blindness effect for self-ignorance claims and offer some reasons to prefer choice change to choice error.
KW - Choice blindness
KW - Consumer choices
KW - Decision making
KW - Ignorance
KW - Moral attitudes
KW - Political attitudes
KW - Self-knowledge
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85073991781&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/s11229-019-02414-3
DO - 10.1007/s11229-019-02414-3
M3 - Article
JO - Synthese
JF - Synthese
SN - 0039-7857
ER -