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 Perhaps word-game epicycles are the *point* of JTB, they're why it's selected for in the academic space.1 reply 1 retweet 0 likes
@Meaningness This is certainly true of qualia: it introduces moving parts that feel meaningful but are fully inaccessible and disconnected.
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