Featured image: T. Cheah & S. van der Moezel, Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Australia. That’s the normative story but, following the methodology described in previous posts, we may also ask about the extent to which a preference for invariant relationships…
As explained in the previous post, one very rich area of inquiry concerns the extent to which normative theories of causal reasoning, from both philosophy and elsewhere, successfully characterize how, as an empirical matter, various sorts of subjects (adults, children, non-human animals)…
As this example illustrates there are often complex and interesting relations between normative and descriptive theories in this area (and I believe in the study of cognition more generally) . On the one hand, we can ask, regarding a normative…
The person who cares doesn’t have just one motivation, and they are not just one type of person. It’s important to challenge simplistic ‘social contract’ descriptions, but similarly simplistic accounts of ‘special’ family relationships won’t stand up to scrutiny. People…
History tells us that poor populations always endure a disproportionate burden of disease and death from infectious diseases. At the very least a universally-accessible free flu vaccination is a presumption that needs rebutting. If no rebuttal is available, the charge…
By Roger Crisp In other words, the real objection against hedonism is not the experience machine. What is wrong with hedonism, if anything, is that it leaves out values other than pleasantness. And Nozick could have made that point without…
DefaultVeg is an international partnership between The UK Food Plan, CreatureKind and The Better Food Foundation. Each partner shares the goal of changing the way organisations think about and source their food. [4] Poore J, Nemecek T. Reducing food’s environmental…
A great example of the Lord’s spirit of sacrifice was the agni-pariksha of mother Sita, towards the end of the yudha kanda in Ramayana. As a great ruler, Rama was extremely concerned about public criticism. He was conscious that His…
But is this the case? It seems mistaken to assume that offering advice to people as to how they might avoid being attacked is the same as asserting that it is up to them to ensure they aren’t attacked, or…
For several years Alison lay awake at night wishing her husband dead. Trapped in a miserable marriage, her preference was for a straightforward heart attack or massive stroke. But she also fantasised about a car crash or a fishbone getting…
Jonna worries that to attribute epistemic virtue to perceptual expertise itself is a category mistake, since the former is more general than the domain-specific instances of the latter. I’m willing to grant this point, and indeed I later put things…
If recognition is cognitively penetrable, then recognition supported by perceptual expertise—as opposed to just any visual recognition—is not an extra symptom of malleability or penetrability of perception. A difference between novices and experts is that experts (when working as experts)…
Later Stokes writes, “Perceptual expertise is an epistemic virtue” (p. 182). This claim strikes me as a mistake. Perceptual expertise is narrowly domain-specific; virtues are not–whether they’re characterized as traits or faculties (Turri 2017). On a trait-based approach there’s no…
Becko Copenhaver Washington University, St. Louis I wonder whether Dustin would resist this picture. If he does, it might be for epistemic reasons. Dustin argues convincingly that CP is an intellectual epistemic virtue, and he holds that an “epistemic virtue…
