PHIL 4303 Chapter Notes - Chapter Week 4: Statistical Hypothesis Testing, Laziness
11 Apr 2016
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Natural epistemic defects and corrective virtues (roberts and west) Natural tendencies to systematic errors in thinking. Error-prone thinking can be corrected through self-vigilance and intellectual vitality. Some thinking easy, some laborious (both interrelated) Intellectual vitality (with open-mindedness: will allow one to engage the more demanding powers, such as comparison, hypothesis testing, and inference, will recruit and enhance self-vigilance. Show us when our beliefs and judgments fail to be rational. Approving of principles is insufficient to be guided by them. Regulative theory must be good in practice. Begins by discussing value and nature of regulative principles. Principles must be used by fast, automatic, unconscious cognitive systems not only slow, deliberate, conscious thought. Two sources of epistemic judgment: dual-system (system 1 fast, automatic, unconscious and system 2 slower, deliberate, conscious) Can use reflection and deliberation to investigate because system 1 primes to respond in suitable way.
