On Folk Epistemology
How we Think and Talk about Knowledge
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 28 September 2017
- ISBN 9780198803454
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages350 pages
- Size 242x171x25 mm
- Weight 682 g
- Language English 0
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On Folk Epistemology exlpores how we ascribe knowledge to ourselves and others. Mikkel Gerken draws on both cognitive psychology and traditional philosophical reflection, while also contributing to epistemology, to lay the foundation for the study of folk epistemology.
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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.
On Folk Epistemology is a rich, carefully argued book that not only makes important contributions to several prominent epistemological debates, but also, and perhaps most importantly, opens up for a new exciting field of research where the relation between epistemology and our epistemic practices can be further investigated.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Part I: Puzzles
Thought and talk about knowledge
Puzzling patterns of knowledge ascriptions
Theoretical responses and methodology
Arguments for strict purist invariantism
Part II: Resources
The psychology of knowledge ascriptions
The epistemic norms of action
The epistemic norms of assertion
Cognition and communication - towards a unified account
Part III: Diagnoses
Staging a strict purist invariantist comeback
Diagnosing salient alternative effects
Diagnosing contrast effects
Diagnosing practical factor effects
Coda: Folk epistemology and epistemic injustice
Appendix
