Notes on Georgi Gardiner's 'Attunement: on the cognitive virtues of attention'
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Unlike many, I think we’re in a golden age of analytic philosophy. At least in the parts of the discipline with which I’m most familiar, every year brings a whole range of new interesting work. There are no doubt many factors that contribute to this, and I’m not the sociologist needed to discern them, but one thing I’ve noticed is that analytic philosophers are talking about many more features of our world that they were before. Each year in epistemology, there is a paper that calls us to think about another aspect of our epistemic lives. In part, at least, I think this is due to a shift from purely ideal epistemology to the study of the non-ideal features of our epistemic lives, that is, those we have precisely because we’re limited creatures with limited time. Where before we perhaps looked at the beliefs we have and asked which ones are supported by our evidence, which count as knowledge, and which justify action and assertion, now
Notes on Georgi Gardiner's 'Attunement: on the cognitive virtues of attention'
Notes on Georgi Gardiner's 'Attunement: on…
Notes on Georgi Gardiner's 'Attunement: on the cognitive virtues of attention'
Unlike many, I think we’re in a golden age of analytic philosophy. At least in the parts of the discipline with which I’m most familiar, every year brings a whole range of new interesting work. There are no doubt many factors that contribute to this, and I’m not the sociologist needed to discern them, but one thing I’ve noticed is that analytic philosophers are talking about many more features of our world that they were before. Each year in epistemology, there is a paper that calls us to think about another aspect of our epistemic lives. In part, at least, I think this is due to a shift from purely ideal epistemology to the study of the non-ideal features of our epistemic lives, that is, those we have precisely because we’re limited creatures with limited time. Where before we perhaps looked at the beliefs we have and asked which ones are supported by our evidence, which count as knowledge, and which justify action and assertion, now