Evolved cognitive biases and the epistemic status of scientific beliefs.

Our ability for scientific reasoning is a byproduct of cognitive faculties that evolved in response to problems related to survival and reproduction. Does this observation increase the epistemic standing of science, or should we treat scientific knowledge with suspicion? The conclusions one draws fr...

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Publicado en:Philosophical Studies Vol. 157; no. 3; pp. 411 - 430
Autores principales: Cruz, Helen, Smedt, Johan
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Publicado: Springer Nature Feb2012
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