Open your eyes and look harder! (An investigation into the idea of a responsible visual search).

In this paper, I explore and defend the idea that we have epistemic responsibilities with respect to our visual searches, responsibilities that are far more fine-grained and interesting than the trivial responsibilities to keep our eyes open and "look hard." In order to have such responsibilities, w...

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Publicado en:Southern Journal of Philosophy Vol. 46; no. 3; pp. 409 - 431
Autor principal: Schroer, Robert
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Wiley-Blackwell Fall2008
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Sumario:In this paper, I explore and defend the idea that we have epistemic responsibilities with respect to our visual searches, responsibilities that are far more fine-grained and interesting than the trivial responsibilities to keep our eyes open and "look hard." In order to have such responsibilities, we must be able to exert fine-grained and interesting forms of control over our visual searches. I present both an intuitive case and an empirical case for thinking that we do, in fact, have such forms of control over our visual searches. I then show how these forms of control can be used to aim the visual beliefs that result from our searches toward various epistemic goals.