I fail to follow the apple example. Why should I epistemically have eaten the apple? Either I have a true goal (and desire) to eat it or not. If I do, I will not refuse to eat it. If you assume it is a goal, I am assuming it is true, although people don’t generally have those sorts of goals, I think. They look more like… lists of preferences and degree of each preferences. Some are core-preferences difficult to change, while others are very mutable.
If by epistemic normativity you mean something like there are x, y, z reasons we should trust when we want to have proper beliefs about things, what I’d say is that this doesn’t seem normative to me. I personally value truth very highly as an end in itself, but even if I didn’t, truthful information is useful for acting to satisfy your desires, but I don’t see why one has some obligation to do so.I f someone doesn’t follow the effective means to their ends, they’re being ineffective or foolish, but not violating any norm. If you want a bridge to stand, build it this way; otherwise, it falls. But there’s no moral or rational requirement to build it that way—you just won’t get what you want.
I fail to follow the apple example. Why should I epistemically have eaten the apple? Either I have a true goal (and desire) to eat it or not. If I do, I will not refuse to eat it. If you assume it is a goal, I am assuming it is true, although people don’t generally have those sorts of goals, I think. They look more like… lists of preferences and degree of each preferences. Some are core-preferences difficult to change, while others are very mutable.
If by epistemic normativity you mean something like there are x, y, z reasons we should trust when we want to have proper beliefs about things, what I’d say is that this doesn’t seem normative to me. I personally value truth very highly as an end in itself, but even if I didn’t, truthful information is useful for acting to satisfy your desires, but I don’t see why one has some obligation to do so.I f someone doesn’t follow the effective means to their ends, they’re being ineffective or foolish, but not violating any norm. If you want a bridge to stand, build it this way; otherwise, it falls. But there’s no moral or rational requirement to build it that way—you just won’t get what you want.