Dusi, Giovanni (2024) Reliabilist Epistemology Meets Bounded Rationality. [Preprint]
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Epistemic reliabilism holds that a belief is justified if and only if it is produced by a reliable or truth-conducive process. I argue that reliabilism offers an epistemology for bounded rationality. This latter concept refers to normative and descriptive accounts of real-world reasoning instead of some ideal reasoning. However, as initially formulated, reliabilism involves an absolute, context-independent assessment of rationality that does not do justice to the fact that several processes are reliable in some reasoning environments but not in others, as is widely reported in the cognitive sciences literature. I consider possible solutions to this problem. Resorting to ‘normality reliabilism’, a variant of the theory, is one; but I find it insufficient. Therefore, in addition, I propose to relativise the reliability assessment to reasoning environments. This novel version of reliabilism fits bounded rationality better than the original one does.
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| Keywords: | Process reliabilism; Ecological rationality; Heuristics and biases; Normality reliabilism; Heuristics; Reasoning environments | ||||||
| Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Cognitive Science General Issues > History of Philosophy of Science Specific Sciences > Psychology |
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| Depositing User: | Mr. Giovanni Dusi | ||||||
| Date Deposited: | 13 Feb 2024 16:26 | ||||||
| Last Modified: | 13 Feb 2024 16:26 | ||||||
| Item ID: | 23080 | ||||||
| Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Cognitive Science General Issues > History of Philosophy of Science Specific Sciences > Psychology |
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| Date: | 6 February 2024 | ||||||
| URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/23080 |
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