In Defense of Intrapersonal Permissivism

In this paper, I argue that the gap between interpersonal permissivism and intrapersonal permissivism is marginal, and there are ways to convert a (potential) interpersonal permissive case into a (potential) intrapersonal permissive case. My first argument for convertibility is that we can convert a reasonable peer disagreement-based interpersonal permissive case into an intrapersonal permissive case. My second argument for convertibility shows that theoretical virtues can be just as incommensurable in intrapersonal settings as in interpersonal ones by appealing to an epistemological analog of the small improvement argument in rational choice theory. Thus, the two arguments indicate that the arguments for interpersonal permissivism also support intrapersonal permissivism.