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On Folk Epistemology - How we Think and Talk about Knowledge (Hardcover)
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On Folk Epistemology - How we Think and Talk about Knowledge (Hardcover)
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On Folk Epistemology explores how we ascribe knowledge to ourselves
and others. Empirical evidence suggests that we do so early and
often in thought as well as in talk. Since knowledge ascriptions
are central to how we navigate social life, it is important to
understand our basis for making them. A central claim of the book
is that factors that have nothing to do with knowledge may lead to
systematic mistakes in everyday ascriptions of knowledge. These
mistakes are explained by an empirically informed account of how
ordinary knowledge ascriptions are the product of cognitive
heuristics that are associated with biases. In developing this
account, Mikkel Gerken presents work in cognitive psychology and
pragmatics, while also contributing to epistemology. For example,
Gerken develops positive epistemic norms of action and assertion
and moreover, critically assesses contextualism, knowledge-first
methodology, pragmatic encroachment theories and more. Many of
these approaches are argued to overestimate the epistemological
significance of folk epistemology. In contrast, this volume
develops an equilibristic methodology according to which intuitive
judgments about knowledge cannot straightforwardly play a role as
data for epistemological theorizing. Rather, critical
epistemological theorizing is required to interpret empirical
findings. Consequently, On Folk Epistemology helps to lay the
foundation for an emerging sub-field that intersects philosophy and
the cognitive sciences: The empirical study of folk epistemology.
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