La naturalisation des normes épistémiques (séminaire de l’Institut Jean-Nicod, UMR 8129 CNRS-EHESS-ENS) (2014)

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titleLa naturalisation des normes épistémiques (séminaire de l’Institut Jean-Nicod, UMR 8129 CNRS-EHESS-ENS)
typeSéminaire
year2014
start_date2014/11/26
stop_date2015/06/10
schedule14h-16h
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websitehttp://www.institutnicod.org/seminaires-colloques/seminaires/naturalisation-des-normes-701/
summaryEpistemic norms (from now on: "ENs") refer to the dimensions on which mental contents can be evaluated with respect to their contribution to knowledge. Any learner needs to predict how exhaustively or accurately she can learn some material, assess whether she understands what she reads, and determine whether she should accept a proposition given a context of epistemic or instrumental deliberation. Little is known, however, about how ordinary people actually recognize ENs and use them in their epistemic decisions. There is no agreement as yet about whether all humans are sensitive to the same ENs, nor, even, about what they are. Epistemologists have mainly focused on truth, coherence, evidentiality and rationality, while anthropologists and psychologists have emphasized the import of additional norms such as relevance, consensuality and fluency. The seminar will be open to philosophers interested in addressing these questions, on the basis of all the methods available, among which formal and non formal epistemology, semantics, decision theory, and experimental psychology.
responsiblesProust, Égré