Rationality in Context

ISBN-13: 9781032511207 / Twarda / 2023 / 312 str.

Canada) Bland Steven (Huron University College

Opis

This book uses the psychological literature on rationality to weigh in on the recent debate between virtue epistemologists and epistemic situationists. It argues that both sides have misconstrued the literature and that an interactionist framework is needed to square epistemic theory with empirical facts about reasoning and inference.

Recenzje

"This important book shows how cultivating epistemic virtue while carefully selecting and designing epistemic environments is the key to sound reasoning. Bland provides a new perspective on rationality, showing how we can reason better despite our cognitive limitations."

Marco Meyer, University of Hamburg, Germany

Spis treści

1. Introduction  Part 1: The Virtue-situation Debate  2. Meliorism and the Psychological Sources of Cognitive Bias  3. Cognitive Bias and Epistemic Virtue Theories  4. The Situationist Challenge, Part 1  5. The Situationist Challenge, Part 2  Part 2: Epistemic Interactionism  6. Epistemic Interactionism  7. Reliabilist Virtues and Ecological Rationality  8. Responsibilist Virtues and Collectivist Rationality  9. The Replication Crisis

O autorze

Steven Bland is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Huron University College, in London, Ontario, Canada. He is the author of Epistemic Relativism and Scepticism: Unwinding the Braid (2018), as well as several articles in the fields of epistemology, the philosophy of science, and early analytic philosophy.