PHIL 4303 Chapter Notes - Chapter Wk 4: Richard E. Nisbett
11 Apr 2016
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The first reading for this week, natural epistemic defects and corrective virtues by roberts and west, explores the human tendency toward error in thought. West claim that self-vigilance and intellectual vitality can act as corrective virtues regarding the four key errors in thought that humans make. Cognitive ease, what-you-see- is-all-there-is thinking, associative coherence, and substitution are the four errors that. The second reading, how do principles guide? by nathan ballantyne, breaks down regulative theory and epistemic judgment through the close examination of guiding principles and their functionality. Ballantyne explains the dual-system of epistemic judgment: system 1 the fast, unconscious, automatic process of thought is our main tool in preventing errors of thought since system 2 the slower, deliberate, conscious process of thought is fallible due to it necessitating reflection. The final reading for this week, the first section of mindware by richard.
