If a relevant threshold of rationality requires only an ability to make reasonable judgments rather than infallible ones concerning the best course of action, then freedom can be understood as the ability to follow one's own reasonable judgment.
(Traditional conception being challenged by epistemic relativists)
A cognitive virtue and hallmark of the scientific method, intimately tied to requirements of consistency, justification, warrant, and evidence for beliefs.
reasonable judgment(the alternative standard to infallibility for measuring rationality)
A thoughtful decision or conclusion that makes sense based on available information, even if it might not be perfect.
threshold(Threshold model of collective action in networks)
A numeric value associated with each player representing the minimum number of revolting participants required for that player to revolt.
A third account of freedom, sometimes neglected by those who emphasize the importance of human freedom, is Susan Wolf’s Reason View, according to which “the freedom necessary for responsibility consists in the ability (or freedom) to do the right thing for the right reasons” (Wolf 1990, 94). But unlike the autonomy view, as she calls it, such freedom does not require the ability to refrain from doing the right thing for the right reasons. Wolf thus commits herself to the following asymmetry: whereas committing a wrong (or immoral) act freely requires an ability to do otherwise and therefore to...