Four grades of ignorance-involvement and how they nourish the cognitive economy.
In the human cognitive economy there are four grades of epistemic involvement. Knowledge partitions into distinct sorts, each in turn subject to gradations. This gives a fourwise partition on ignorance, which exhibits somewhat different coinstantiation possibilities. The elements of these partitions...
| Publicado en: | Synthese Vol. 198; no. 4; pp. 3339 - 3369 |
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=hlh&AN=149905574&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: hlh uiTerm: 149905574 longDbName: Humanities International Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 00397857 4LI jtl: Synthese issn: 00397857 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Apr2021 vid: 198 iid: 4 pid: 237 pub: Springer Nature artinfo: ui: 149905574 10.1007/s11229-019-02283-w ppf: 3339 ppct: 30 formats: fmt: @attributes: type: P size: 639KB tig: atl: Four grades of ignorance-involvement and how they nourish the cognitive economy. aug: au: Woods, John affil: Department of Philosophy, University of British Columbia, 1866 Main Mall BUCH E370, V6T 1Z1, Vancouver, BC, Canada su: Tacit knowledge Theory of knowledge sug: subj: Tacit knowledge Theory of knowledge keyword: Abduction Anselmian knowledge Big-box scepticism Causal-response epistemology Cognitive economics Command-and-control epistemology Consciousness Deception Error Explicit knowledge Ignorance Ignorance-preservation Impact-knowledge Information Information filters JTB model Logic naturalized Misinformation Natural knowledge Propositional (semantic) knowledge Tacit and implicit knowledge Virtual truth-values ab: In the human cognitive economy there are four grades of epistemic involvement. Knowledge partitions into distinct sorts, each in turn subject to gradations. This gives a fourwise partition on ignorance, which exhibits somewhat different coinstantiation possibilities. The elements of these partitions interact with one another in complex and sometimes cognitively fruitful ways. The first grade of knowledge I call "anselmian" to echo the famous declaration credo ut intelligam, that is, "I believe in order that I may come to know". As construed here, one knows in this anselmian way that E = mc just in case one knows that sentence expresses a true statement, but without having to understand the proposition it expresses. Most epistemologists ignore the significance of this grade of epistemic involvement. In a second grade of epistemic involvement, knowing that E = mc is knowing what that sentence means and understanding the proposition it express. This is knowledge in the propositional or semantic sense, and is the dominant target of epistemological investigation. Tacit and implicit (TI) knowledge occupies another tier. A typical example would be something that someone has "known all along" but, until now, hasn't had occasion to put her mind to it or formulate in words. TI-knowledge remains a minority interest in today's epistemology. Operating at a fourth grade of epistemic involvement is what I call "impact"-knowledge, which is the knowledge of a matter at its deepest and most widespread. An example, to be discussed below, is the knowledge that was generated by the Wiles proof of Fermat's last theorem. Its true importance lies not only, or even mainly, in its verification of a commonly accepted fact about numbers, but rather in its enrichment of the mathematics of elliptical curves and the promise it holds for greater advancement into the mathematical unknown. Knowledge of this fourth grade has yet to find a seat in the parliaments of epistemology. Knowledge of the anselmian sort is independent of the other three. Tacit and implicit knowledge is incompatible with anselmian and semantic knowledge but coinstantiable with impact-knowledge. Semantic knowledge is incompatible with tacit and implicit knowledge but coinstantiable with the others. Impact-knowledge is pairwise coinstantiable with the others. Below I will bring the ignorance partitions into such alignment as they have with these ones. In doing so, I'll propose a naturalized causal response epistemology designed to give these interactive distinctions the theoretical air they need to breathe. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: Y custom: Synthese is a copyright of Springer, 2021. All Rights Reserved. item: Synthese holder: Springer Nature dt: @attributes: year: 2021 holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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