Virtue epistemology starts with real insights; ruins them by forced mis-application to Gettier-type pseudoproblems. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/epistemology-virtue/ …
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Meanwhile, anthropologists like Ed Hutchins http://hci.ucsd.edu/hutchins/ have found out a lot about how people know by actually observing them.
@Meaningness do you have a 140/280-char summary of Hutchins? :) I'm partial to Popper myself, but intrigued by an anthropological approach
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@KevinSimler If you observe people using knowledge in careful detail, you can often understand something about how it works :-)Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@KevinSimler Popper had important insights, but disconfirmation is not, empirically, how science actually works. -
@KevinSimler One black swan is probably an uninteresting mutant, or oil-spill casualty, not a disconfirmation.
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@KevinSimler This might be a better example than Hutchins, actually: http://stuartgeiger.com/wordpress/2008/11/review-talking-about-machines-by-julian-orr/ … cc:@sarahdoingthing Highly influential study. -
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