Cognitive Vulnerability in Philosophical Perspective

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Table of Contents V
3. List of Abbreviations VII
4. Cognitive Vulnerability in Philosophical Perspective 1
5. Part I: Shaping Our Cognitive Vulnerability
6. Cognitive Vulnerability, Repetition, and Truth 27
7. How Negative Knowledge Relates to Negative Certainty: An Instance of Cognitive Vulnerability 53
8. The Epistemology of “Successibility”: An Optimistic Point of View 69
9. Heuristics as a Source of Cognitive Vulnerability in Philosophy 87
10. The Virtuous Circle of Fallibilism, Realism, and Intersubjectivity: Peirce’s Antidote to Cognitive Vulnerability 107
11. Part II: Consequences of Cognitive Vulnerability
12. Cognitive Vulnerability: Fallibilism, Distrust, and Disagreements 127
13. Bounded Normativity: The Principle of Reflective Equilibrium as a Principle of Rationality 149
14. Cognitive Vulnerability and the Post-Truth Challenge 159
15. Understanding, Vulnerability, and Risk 177
16. Defeasible Knowledge of Dispositions: A Survey from Wittgenstein’s Epistemic Pluralism 193
17. Notes on Contributors 213
18. Index of Names 217
19. Subject Index 221