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How navigation systems transform epistemic virtues
- Source :
- Cognitive Systems Research, 56, 36-49. Elsevier
- Publication Year :
- 2019
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Abstract
- In this paper, we analyse how GPS-based navigation systems are transforming some of our intellectual virtues and then suggest two strategies to improve our practices regarding the use of such epistemic tools. We start by outlining the two main approaches in virtue epistemology, namely virtue reliabilism and virtue responsibilism. We then discuss how navigation systems can undermine five epistemic virtues, namely memory, perception, attention, intellectual autonomy, and intellectual carefulness. We end by considering two possible interlinked ways of trying to remedy this situation: [i] redesigning the epistemic tool to improve the epistemic virtues of memory, perception, and attention; and [ii] the cultivation of cognitive diligence for wayfinding tasks scaffolding intellectual autonomy and carefulness.
- Subjects :
- Cognitive science
Virtue
Design
Cognitive Neuroscience
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Virtue epistemology
Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
02 engineering and technology
Wayfinding technology
03 medical and health sciences
Cognitive artifacts
0302 clinical medicine
Route knowledge
Artificial Intelligence
0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
Epistemic virtue
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Cognitive diligence
Cognition
Spatial cognition
Diligence
Navigation
Survey knowledge
Epistemology
Behavioural geography
020201 artificial intelligence & image processing
Reliabilism
GPS devices
Psychology
030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Software
Autonomy
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 13890417
- Volume :
- 56
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Cognitive Systems Research
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....1ebe9504a3dcbe967f7db56fc4610854