Analytic Epistemology and Armchair Psychology

Epistemology and the Psychology of Human Judgment

Shareability : The Social Psychology of Epistemology * JENNIFER

Psychologists and cognitive scientists interested in the nature of internol representotions of humon knowledge often use observable regularities or structures to infer what the innate constraints on those representations must be like. It is possible, however, that certain structures might come about only when a group of people share a knowledge domain. Furthermore, it is possible that there ore...

Sanford C. Goldberg the Psychology and Epistemology of Self-knowledge

In this paper I argue, first, that the most influential (and perhaps only acceptable) account of the epistemology of self-knowledge, developed and defended at great length in Wright (1989b) and (1989c) (among other places), leaves unanswered a question about the psychology of self-knowledge; second, that without an answer to this question about the psychology of self-knowledge, the epistemic ac...

Psychology, epistemology, and skepticism in Hume's argument about induction

Do we yet understand Hume's project in his main argument about induction in Treatise I.iii.6? Is the argument skeptical? Is it even so much as epistemological, skeptical or otherwise? Or is it merely psychological? Although the literature has made much progress on these questions, we have not reached a full understanding of Hume's position. I hope to fill in some missing pieces of the interpret...

Formal Epistemology and the New Paradigm Psychology of Reasoning

This position paper advocates combining formal epistemology and the new paradigm psychology of reasoning in the studies of conditionals and reasoning with uncertainty. The new paradigm psychology of reasoning is characterized by the use of probability theory as a rationality framework instead of classical logic, used by more traditional approaches to the psychology of reasoning. This paper pres...