Greely, Nathaniel (2021) Epistemic feelings, metacognition, and the Lima problem. [Preprint]
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Abstract
Epistemic feelings like tip-of-the-tongue experiences, feelings of knowing, and feelings of confidence tell us when a memory can be recalled and when a judgment was correct. Thus, they appear to be a form of metacognition, but a curious one: they tell us about content we cannot access, and the information is supplied by a feeling. Evaluativism is the claim that epistemic feelings are components of a distinct, primitive metacognitive mechanism that operates on its own set of inputs. These inputs are heuristics that correlate with the presence of mental content that can’t be accessed directly. I will argue that evaluativism is unmotivated, unsupported, and ill-conceived. I will critique the philosophical and empirical arguments for evaluativism and conclude that there is no reason to posit a distinct mechanism to explain epistemic feelings. I will conclude, however, that epistemic feelings may constitute a nonconceptual form of metacognition, which if true is a significant claim.
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| Keywords: | epistemic feelings; evaluativism; feelings of knowing; feelings of confidence; metacognition; nonconceptual content; tip of the tongue experiences | ||||||
| Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Cognitive Science Specific Sciences > Cognitive Science > Concepts and Representations Specific Sciences > Psychology > Judgment and Decision Making Specific Sciences > Psychology |
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| Depositing User: | Mr. Nathaniel Greely | ||||||
| Date Deposited: | 22 Feb 2021 22:32 | ||||||
| Last Modified: | 22 Feb 2021 22:32 | ||||||
| Item ID: | 18750 | ||||||
| Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Cognitive Science Specific Sciences > Cognitive Science > Concepts and Representations Specific Sciences > Psychology > Judgment and Decision Making Specific Sciences > Psychology |
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| Date: | 2021 | ||||||
| URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/18750 |
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