Epistemology and the Psychology of Human Judgment by Michael A Bishop

Author:Michael A Bishop [Bishop, Michael A]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
ISBN: 0195162293

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manual for a car provides useful advice. It doesn't follow that everyone regardless of their skill or knowledge can use that advice profitably.

There is another aspect to the owner's manual analogy. If there exists only one copy of a Chevy Vega owner's manual and it is locked in a vault in Detroit, it is not available enough to be genuinely useful to Vega owners (who are likely to need genuine help). Similarly, if the advice of Strategic Reliabilism is to be restricted to highly specialized journals, then it will not be available enough to be genuinely useful. That is why our view takes seriously the idea that epistemology, like any science, ought to be a well-ordered social system (Kitcher 2001). A well-ordered social system for epistemology would have at least two features. First, in order to achieve its ameliorative potential, epistemology should be organized so that it provides a way to effectively communicate its established findings, particularly its practical advice, to appropriate audiences. Second, in order to minimize the risk of promoting harmful or mistaken findings, epistemology should be organized so that whatever findings are communicated widely have passed rigorous empirical scrutiny.

Recognizing the importance of significance in epistemology opens up a pair of empirical issues that are perhaps deserving of more study: First,

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