Is a subpersonal virtue epistemology possible?

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作者
Naeem, Hadeel [1 ]
机构
[1] Bogazici Univ, Philosophy Dept, Istanbul, Turkiye
关键词
Extended cognition; subpersonal epistemology; epistemic responsibility; virtue epistemology; cognitive integration; precision estimation; EXTENDED KNOWLEDGE; COGNITIVE INTEGRATION; BELIEF; LUCK; RELIABILISM; NEUROMEDIA;
D O I
10.1080/13869795.2023.2183240
中图分类号
B [哲学、宗教];
学科分类号
01 ; 0101 ;
摘要
Virtue reliabilists argue that an agent can only gain knowledge if she responsibly employs a reliable belief-forming process. This in turn demands that she is either aware that her process is reliable or is sensitive to her process's reliability in some other way. According to a recent argument in the philosophy of mind, sometimes a cognitive mechanism (i.e. precision estimation) can ensure that a belief-forming process is only employed when it's reliable. If this is correct, epistemic responsibility can sometimes be explained entirely on the subpersonal level. In this paper, I argue that the mechanism of precision estimation-the alleged new variety of epistemic responsibility-is a more ubiquitous phenomenon than epistemic responsibility. I show that precision estimation operates at levels that are not always concerned with the epistemic domain. Lastly, I broaden this argument to explain how all subpersonal epistemologies are likely to fall prey to the problem of demarcating cognitive agency and the problem of attributing beliefs.
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页码:350 / 367
页数:18
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