AN EPISTEMOLOGY FOR THE PLATONIST? PLATONISM, FIELD’S DILEMMA, AND JUDGMENT-DEPENDENT TRUTH

Epistemology and the Psychology of Human Judgment

The Truth - Value Judgment Task

The truth-value judgment (TVJ) task has proved to be one of the most illuminating methods of assessing children's linguistic competence developed in recent years. The fundamental property of this task is that it requires the child simply to make a bipolar judgment about whether a statement accurately describes a particular situation alluded to in some context or preamble. The success of the tas...

Judgment aggregation in search for the truth

We analyse the problem of aggregating judgments over multiple issues from the perspective of whether aggregate judgments manage to e ciently use all voters’ private information. While new in judgment aggregation theory, this perspective is familiar in a di↵erent body of literature about voting between two alternatives where voters’ disagreements stem from conflicts of information rather than in...

"The whole truth" versus "the admissible truth": an ethics dilemma for expert witnesses.

The expert witness testifies under oath to tell "the whole truth," yet certain aspects of the legal system itself make this ideal difficult or impossible. The authors present both a philosophical and a practical discussion of the challenges for the expert in attaining this goal. After review of oaths in general and truth-telling in particular, real-life examples are provided to examine the vici...

The truth and bias model of judgment.

We present a new model for the general study of how the truth and biases affect human judgment. In the truth and bias model, judgments about the world are pulled by 2 primary forces, the truth force and the bias force, and these 2 forces are interrelated. The truth and bias model differentiates force and value, where the force is the strength of the attraction and the value is the location towa...