Morton, Professor Adam (2003) Epistemic virtues, metavirtues, and computational complexity. [Preprint]
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Abstract
I argue that considerations about computational complexity show that all finite agents need characteristics like those that have been called epistemic virtues. The necessity of these virtues follows in part from the nonexistence of shortcuts, or efficient ways of finding shortcuts, to cognitively expensive routines. It follows that agents must possess the capacities – metavirtues –of developing in advance the cognitive virtues they will need when time and memory are at a premium.
| Item Type: | Preprint |
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| Keywords: | cognition, computational complexity, epistemology, epistemic virtue, metavirtue, virtue |
| Subjects: | Computer Science > Complexity Theory Philosophy > Philosophy of Mind Philosophy > Epistemology |
| ID Code: | 2886 |
| Deposited By: | Morton, Prof Adam |
| Deposited On: | 16 Apr 2003 |
| Last Modified: | 12 Sep 2007 17:47 |
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