Reliability and Social Knowledgerelevant Responsibility

The International Journal of Evidence & Proof

2019

In this paper I argue that, given that one epistemic goal of judicial decision-making is to reach reasonably plausible decisions, the divisions of epistemic and cognitive labour help processes of judicial decision-making to better promote that goal under certain conditions. Those conditions concern the possession of a certain intellectual character (in particular, a humble and autonomous character) by the subjects exploiting those divisions of labour and the existence of a certain diversity among those subjects. So, in order to better promote reasonably plausible decisions, we should take measures that make it likely that those divisions of labour are exploited under those conditions. Given this, some prescriptive recommendations are made.

Section: Expertise and The Epistemic Structure Of Societymentioning

confidence: 99%

Judicial decisions, intellectual virtues and the division of labour

The International Journal of Evidence & Proof

2019

“…However, the division of epistemic labour not only concerns the transmission of epistemic goods, such as beliefs with positive epistemic status. For example, this division of labour often takes place with regard to the procedures for arriving at beliefs, say within science (since often one isn't aware of the rationale behind them and is implicitly trained to use them; De Brasi, 2015). By the division of cognitive labour, I mean the distribution of cognitive work across people to jointly perform a given epistemic task required for some positive epistemic status.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Argumentative Deliberation and the Development of Intellectual Humility and Autonomy in the Classroom

2020

cogency

It is argued that argumentative deliberation, which involves the interpersonal exchange and evaluation of reasons and counter-reasons, is crucial for the generation of epistemic goods given that it helps us eradicate errors and neutralise biases. However, to reap argumentative deliberation’s epistemic benefits, the deliberators need to instantiate a certain intellectual character: in particular, they need to be intellectually humble and autonomous. Given that, it is argued that the educational system should foster the development of the intellectual virtues of humility and autonomy. Moreover, some pedagogical strategies and practices as to how this can be achieved in the classroom are offered.

“…It can be, and it is (e.g. Aikin and Talisse, 2014;De Brasi, 2015a;Mercier and Sperber, 2017;Simon, 2015;Wagenknecht, 2017), much more pervasive. In fact, what we could ca l the e iste ic structure of society with its range of social and institutional ar angements, including (importantly for our purposes) its division of epistemic and cognitive labour, doesn't require the teaching of a l the facts to everyone and people thinking only on their own.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Having said that, it would be a mistake to think that the division of epistemic labour merely concerns the transmission of some epistemic good (more on this immediately below). This division can take place, for example, with regard to the epistemic norms or procedures that one exploits (De Brasi, 2015a). Nevertheless, below I'll focus on the (less controversial) knowledge-transmission aspect of the division of epistemic labour.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Citizenry incompetence and the epistemic structure of society

2018

Filosofia Unisinos

The epistemic structure of society, with its division of epistemic and cognitive labour, can help us deal with the citizenry incompetence threat that many contemporary conceptions of democracy suffer as long as a certain intellectual character is possessed by the citizens.A estrutura epistêmica da sociedade, com sua divisão do trabalho epistêmico e cognitivo, pode nos ajudar a lidar com a ameaça da incompetência dos cidadãos que muitas concepções contemporâneas de democracia sofrem, desde que um certo caráter intelectual seja possuído pelos cidadãos.Palavras-chave: testemunho de especialistas, deliberação coletiva, virtude intelectual, democracia.