The Nature of Ability and the Purpose of Knowledge

Greco, John

doi:10.1111/j.1533-6077.2007.00122.x

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“…In general, the Internet has been seen to betoken a significant expansion in our epistemic capabilities (Ludwig 2015;Bjerring and Pedersen 2014); however, I have attempted to sound a note of caution here. While we might assume that Internet-extended cognition leads to an effective supersizing of our epistemic power and potential, things are not so straightforward when the epistemic status of the Internet-extended cognizer is evaluated with respect to virtue-theoretic epistemological theories, especially those that emphasize the role of cognitive ability in securing claims of positive epistemic standing (Greco 2007;.…”

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“…A popular way of thinking about knowledge within contemporary epistemology is to emphasize the role played by cognitive abilities in determining the truth status of an individual's beliefs. An agent S can thus be said to know that p if and only if S believes that p and the truth of S's belief that p is due to the exercise of cognitive abilities that are ascribed to S. This sort of epistemological position is known as virtue reliabilism (Greco 2007;, and it forms part of a more general movement in contemporary epistemology that goes under the heading of virtue epistemology (Greco and Turri 2012).…”

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Extended Cognition and the Internet

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2017

Philos. Technol.

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The Internet is an important focus of attention for those concerned with issues of extended cognition. In particular, the application of active externalist theorizing to the Internet gives rise to the notion of Internet-extended cognition: the idea that the Internet can (on occasion) form part of an integrated nexus of material elements that serves as the realization base for human mental states and processes. The current review attempts to survey a range of issues and controversies that arise in respect of the notion of Internet-extended cognition. These include the issue of whether the Internet, as a technological system, is able to support real-world cases of cognitive extension. It also includes issues concerning the cognitive and epistemic impacts of the Internet. Finally, the review highlights a range of issues and concerns that have not been the focus of previous philosophical attention. These include issues of 'network-extended cognitive bloat', 'conjoined minds', and an entirely new form of cognitive extension that goes under the heading of 'human-extended machine cognition'. Together, these issues serve to highlight the value and importance of Internet-extended cognition to contemporary philosophical debates about the extended mind. In particular, the notion of Internet-extended cognition has the potential to highlight points of philosophical progress that are not easily revealed by the kind of technologically low-grade cases that tend to animate the majority of philosophical discussions in this area.

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Extended Cognition and the Internet

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2017

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“…Only processes that are appropriately integrated into the subject's cognitive character and as such manifest the subject's cognitive ability eventuate in knowledge (Sosa, 2007;Plantinga, 1993;Greco, 1999Greco, , 2007Pritchard, 2006Pritchard, , 2010. Appropriate integration means that a process interacts cooperatively with the subject's cognitive character.…”

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Group as a Distributed Subject of Knowledge: Between Radicalism and Triviality

Trybulec¹

2017

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In the paper, I distinguish the bottom-up strategy and the intentional stance strategy of analyzing group intentional states, and show that the thesis of distributed group subject of knowledge could be accommodated by either of them. Moreover, I argue that when combined with virtue reliabilism the thesis satisfactorily explains the phenomenon of group knowledge. To justify my argument, in the second part of the paper, I distinguish two accounts of justification pointing to conditions of group knowledge. The first, which I call the belief-centered approach to group intentional states, determines the concept of group belief and group justificatory reason. The second, the process-centered approach represented by S. Orestis Palermos, employs the theory of virtue reliabilism and focuses on the group knowledge-conducive process. In the paper, I argue in favor of the latter as the internalism associated with the former appears to lack sufficient explanatory power. The theory of virtue epistemology runs into considerable difficulties when trying to deal with an extended epistemic subject composed of one individual and her cognitive artifact. In the two last parts of the paper, I consider the most important difficulties and argue that these obstacles are overcome once one adopts an approach combining virtue epistemology and the thesis of distributed group epistemic subject.

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“…Stated otherwise: to know that p is to deserve credit for believing the truth regarding p-voilà, the Credit Theory of Knowledge (CTK) in its most basic form. One can find it in, among other places, Greco (2007), 1 Riggs (2007) 2 and Sosa (2007). 3 The strategy of those who oppose CTK is straightforward: find an instance of knowledge in which the credit condition isn't met.…”

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Knowledge without credit, exhibit 4: extended cognition

Vaesen

2010

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The Nature of Ability and the Purpose of Knowledge

Cited by 171 publications

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Extended Cognition and the Internet

Extended Cognition and the Internet

Group as a Distributed Subject of Knowledge: Between Radicalism and Triviality

Knowledge without credit, exhibit 4: extended cognition

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