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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Lesson of Gettier is that JTB is wrong & useless epistemology. Should have motivated empirical investigation of how, actually, people know.
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Tradition prevents philosophers actually attempting to find anything out, so just tried to find clever word-game epicyclic patches to JTB.
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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.
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@Meaningness do you have a 140/280-char summary of Hutchins? :) I'm partial to Popper myself, but intrigued by an anthropological approach3 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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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.1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
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@KevinSimler “Xerox gives its technicians diagnostic and repair manuals, but these are only used by novices or as a last resort…”1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@KevinSimler “the [actual] work is kinesthetic or auditory…” so >1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
@KevinSimler they rely on co-workers, who share techniques, tricks, quick fixes, documentation errors, and most importantly, “war stories”
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@Meaningness I'm having trouble figuring what I should get out of this way of looking at things. It seems too obvious to me...2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@KevinSimler Hmm… There’s a sudden gestalt figure/ground flip when you “get” the ethno view, and everything suddenly seems different.1 reply 0 retweets 1 like - 3 more replies
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