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If you inject a vaccine, you can get a chip. If you put a 5G tower, you can irradiate people. And the Earth is flat and it is controlled by aliens from the planet Nibiru. What philosophy can offer against such ideas? We discuss in this episode cognitive virtues and vices.
Moderator:
Anton Kuznetsov is a Candidate of Philosophical Sciences, a researcher at the MCCS at the Faculty of Philosophy of Moscow State University.
Guests:
Artem Besedin is an associate professor at the Faculty of Philosophy of Moscow State University.
Sergey Shevchenko is a researcher at the Institute of Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
Timecodes:
00:00 - Introduction
00:30 - Where do the theories of the flat Earth, chipization and so on come from
02:20 - Cognitive vices
03:25 - Why can't conspiracy theorists say that we have cognitive vices, and not them?
05:02 - Gettier's knowledge and famous cases. Example with a clock
07:22 - The metaphor of the raft and the pyramid for the problem of knowledge
09:20 - Cognitive akrasia - inability to follow your own rules
10:39 - Why can't a supporter of a flat Earth say that we have cognitive akrasia?
11:29 - “Picking the cherries out of the cake" - inflating contradictory facts
12:25 - Why do we need to talk about cognitive vices if conspiracy theorists can be attacked with facts?
15:00 - The answer to Gettier's cases. Cognitive skills on the basis of knowledge
16:06 - Objection of an HIV dissident or a supporter of GMOs to a response from cognitive skills
18:09 - What is the epistemology of virtues
18:38 - Two types of cognitive virtues: cognitive skills and cognitive responsibility
19:55 - Cognitive virtues allow you to evaluate the positions of conspiracy theorists and even ordinary scientists
21:42 - Where does normativity come from in the theory of knowledge? After all, this is not ethics!
24:22 - Are cognitive saints possible?
26:00 - Objection to cognitive saints. Stereotypes and dogmatism are convenient
27:32 - Why can't a proponent of chipization say that they are cognitively virtuous?
29:44 - About the importance of cognitive responsibility. The irresponsibility of flat Earth supporters
30:54 - Who determines where cognitive virtue is and where vice is?
33:47 - A thought experiment about Galileo and Shmalileo
34:59 - What about the simulation?
40:15 - How do you answer the chipization theorist from the point of view of the epistemology of virtues?
41:48 - How to be cognitively virtuous?
43:06 - Summary
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