Cognitive Vulnerability : An Epistemological Approach.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

González-Castán, Óscar Lucas.

Series:

Berlin Studies in Knowledge Research Series

Berlin Studies in Knowledge Research Series ; v.18

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (232 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin/Boston : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2023.

Summary:

The Berlin Studies in Knowledge Research (BSKR) series aims to foster systematic research into the variety of forms of knowledge as well as to uncover aspects of their underlying unity. The conception of the discipline of epistemology it seeks to promote is a generous-one which encompasses a study of the full variety of forms, practices and dynamics of knowledge, as well as their mutually interacting points of contact and their respective mechanisms of interpenetration. It seeks thereby to bring about a reorientation of the discipline of epistemology, undoing artificial restrictions in its scope and achieving a greater appreciation of the heterogeneity of different forms of knowledge. The series BSKR is associated with the Innovationszentrum Wissensforschung (IZW) / Center for Knowledge Researchat the TU Berlin, Germany.

Contents:

Intro

Table of Contents

List of Abbreviations

Cognitive Vulnerability in Philosophical Perspective

Part I: Shaping Our Cognitive Vulnerability

Cognitive Vulnerability, Repetition, and Truth

How Negative Knowledge Relates to Negative Certainty: An Instance of Cognitive Vulnerability

The Epistemology of "Successibility": An Optimistic Point of View

Heuristics as a Source of Cognitive Vulnerability in Philosophy

The Virtuous Circle of Fallibilism, Realism, and Intersubjectivity: Peirce's Antidote to Cognitive Vulnerability

Part II: Consequences of Cognitive Vulnerability

Cognitive Vulnerability: Fallibilism, Distrust, and Disagreements

Bounded Normativity: The Principle of Reflective Equilibrium as a Principle of Rationality

Cognitive Vulnerability and the Post-Truth Challenge

Understanding, Vulnerability, and Risk

Defeasible Knowledge of Dispositions: A Survey from Wittgenstein's Epistemic Pluralism

Notes on Contributors

Index of Names

Subject Index.

Notes:

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ISBN:

9783110799163

3110799162

OCLC:

1393308798