Upcoming post: Analysis of 'Epistemology and the Psychology of Human Judgement' by Bishop and Trout

I will be uploading an analysis with minimal commentary of 'Epistemology and the Psychology of Human Judgement' by Bishop and Trout early next week.
EHJ is an attempt at describing what excellent reasoning is and why it is reliable. While the work could be a fine stand-alone elucidation of ameliorative psychology, the authors include a polemical criticism of what they call 'standard analytic epistemology'. The work is valuable insofar as it provides good data and tips about how to reason excellently; it provides 'standard predictive rules' that one is better off using than their own methods,as well as a detailed discussion about the failure for many human beings to understand the actual reasons they hold beliefs. However, the bashing of theoretical approaches to epistemology (because they fail to give practical advice) is misguided; theoretical advances do not necessarily entail practical advice; expecting SAE do so is a seeming category mistake.

I'll be going over chapter 5 and 6.

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