Experience Extends Us Epistemically

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Sometimes experience expands us epistemically. It adds or changes what we know and that we can't get that from simple description or testimony. So again, because it's a transformative experience involving bothEpistemic and personal transformation, you find yourself in a high-stakes situation where you lack even the ordinary tools to fix the reference class.

Philosopher and author L.A. Paul talks about her book Transformative Experience with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Paul explores the uncertainties that surround the transformative experiences that we choose and that happen to us without choosing. How should we think about the morality and personal impact of these kinds of experiences, especially when some decisions are very hard or impossible to reverse? Examples include becoming a vampire, having children, religion, and other life experiences and choices.