In Folk Epistemology María G. Navarro makes
accessible to everyone interested on folk epistemology what the scientific
community publishes on this topic.
What the definition of a heuristic is and what is its effect on reasoning? Why does it make sense to think that people’s inferences are influenced by the content of their premises? How could we define perceptual knowledge? Is there a common competence to reason about knowledge? What can the literature on experimental epistemology bring to a folk epistemology definition? Is it possible to formalize common sense or a common competence to ascribe knowledge? Is empathy a source of justified belief? Does it make sense to explore cultural variations in theories of mind?
These are
questions we ask all in one way or another in our ordinary life. Folk Epistemology is the blog
of an interpreter dedicated to establishing a dialogue between our diaries
inquires and its academic formulation in philosopher’s works.
It's
exciting to investigate some of the answers given to these questions by
philosophers like Lisa Bortolotti,
Susanna Siegel, Scott
Sturgeon, Joshua Knobe, Josefa
Toribio, Gerd
Gigerenzer, Finn
Spicer, Martin
Kusch, Stephen
Stich, Bryony Pierce,
Kristin
Andrews, Alvin I. Goldman, Daniel
D. Hutto, Miranda
Friker, Raymundo
Morado, Stephanie
Ruphy, Dan Zahavi, Eric Schwitzgebel, María José Frápolli or Maja
Spener.
María G. Navarro is
a “Juan de la Cierva”
postdoctoral fellow. She
is developing the research Project “Folk Epistemology and Ordinary Reasoning:
Towards a Logic of Interpretation” at the Institute
of Philosophy of the Spanish
National Research Council.
