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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Published in:	Philosophical Studies Vol. 157; no. 3; pp. 411 - 430
Main Authors:	Cruz, Helen, Smedt, Johan
Format:	Article
Published:	Springer Nature Feb2012
Subjects:	Epistemics Judgment (Logic) Suspicion Philosophy Theory of knowledge
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost