{"product_id":"on-folk-epistemology-how-we-think-and-talk-about-knowledge-9780198803454","title":"On Folk Epistemology: How We Think and Talk about Knowledge","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Mikkel Gerken\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Epistemology\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eOn Folk Epistemology\u003c\/em\u003e explores how we ascribe knowledge to ourselves and others. Empirical evidence suggests that we do so early and often in thought as well as in talk. Since knowledge ascriptions are central to how we navigate social life, it is important to understand our basis for making them. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA central claim of the book is that factors that have nothing to do with knowledge may lead to systematic mistakes in everyday ascriptions of knowledge. These mistakes are explained by an empirically informed account of how ordinary knowledge ascriptions are the product of \u003cem\u003ecognitive heuristics\u003c\/em\u003e that are associated with \u003cem\u003ebiases\u003c\/em\u003e. In developing this account, Mikkel Gerken presents work in cognitive psychology and pragmatics, while also contributing to epistemology. For example, Gerken develops positive epistemic norms of action and assertion and moreover, critically assesses contextualism, knowledge-first methodology, pragmatic encroachment theories and more. Many of these approaches are argued to overestimate the epistemological significance of folk epistemology. In contrast, this volume develops an equilibristic methodology according to which intuitive judgments about knowledge cannot straightforwardly play a role as data for epistemological theorizing. Rather, critical epistemological\u003cbr\u003etheorizing is required to interpret empirical findings. Consequently, \u003cem\u003eOn Folk Epistemology\u003c\/em\u003e helps to lay the foundation for an emerging sub-field that intersects philosophy and the cognitive sciences: The empirical study of folk epistemology.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47889931337879,"sku":"9780198803454","price":9758.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780198803454.webp?v=1781178254","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/on-folk-epistemology-how-we-think-and-talk-about-knowledge-9780198803454","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}