tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10856048.post2933274815358525325..comments2024-03-12T12:23:10.033-04:00Comments on Secular Perspectives: Epistemological StylesUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10856048.post-52788252811310044972012-05-22T08:54:42.370-04:002012-05-22T08:54:42.370-04:00For a related blog item see 2002 Nobel Prize-winni...For a related blog item see 2002 Nobel Prize-winning psychologist Daniel Kahneman talk at the National Academy on "Thinking that We Know. "<br />http://secularhumanist.blogspot.com/2012/05/thinking-that-we-know-and-science-of.htmlGary Berg-Crosshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00104267265989624672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10856048.post-21428480332858102562012-01-23T21:05:39.283-05:002012-01-23T21:05:39.283-05:00Obviously folk epistemology is not real epistemolo...Obviously folk epistemology is not real epistemology any more than folk physics is real physics. However, Gary is saying something very important about the world we live in. He does raise the question about how do we create progess in a democratic society when the average person uses these folk conceptions about sytles of knowing?Don Whartonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11874733311091724239noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10856048.post-29167531524113955542012-01-23T09:39:28.455-05:002012-01-23T09:39:28.455-05:00I agree that psychology can be an important factor...I agree that psychology can be an important factor, but I don't agree that the psychology issues that are the focus of Psychologist Jonathan Haidt are about epistemology. Psychology adds more complexity, of course, but that isn't complexity of epistemology, it is the complexity of psychology. That is a different, and more general, topic that applies to all and any issues related attitudes, including these discussed by Edd Doerr, entirely independently of epistemology.Explicit Atheisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05501109533475045969noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10856048.post-63640700798460451302012-01-22T17:48:48.244-05:002012-01-22T17:48:48.244-05:00I don't buy this argument that epistemology is...I don't buy this argument that epistemology is an issue of personal styles and preferences, like a preference for shirts with button down collars versus non- buttoned collars. Let's say you are on trial for a crime that you didn't commit. Which epistemological "style" would you prefer the jurors to adopt?<br /><br />It makes a big difference, and is of fundamental importance, that the jurors adopt an epistemological "style" of determining what is true or false that is reliable and trustworthy for correctly distinguishing what is true from what is false. And I don't think that people who have a free-floating "style" that isn't anchored tightly to empirical evidence are jurors that can be trusted to render correct decisions.Explicit Atheisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05501109533475045969noreply@blogger.com