Emerging digital technologies: Implications for extended conceptions of cognition and knowledge
Emerging digital technologies: Implications for extended conceptions of cognition and knowledge
This chapter explores the cognitive and epistemic implications of emerging digital technologies from the standpoint of two philosophical positions: active externalism and virtue reliabilism. Emerging digital technologies (especially those associated with the Internet and World Wide Web) are important because they help to highlight issues that are not so easily revealed by the rather mundane and technologically low-grade examples favored by the philosophical community. The present analysis suggests that the general thrust of technology design is largely consistent with the criteria that have been used to evaluate putative cases of cognitive extension. In addition, the present analysis suggests that active externalism and virtue reliabilism are broadly compatible when it comes to the notion of extended knowledge. Despite this, a consideration of both the properties of emerging digital technologies and the requirements for extended knowledge reveals something of an unexpected tension between our prospective status as extended cognizers and extended knowers.
epistemology, world wide web, web science, extended cognition, extended mind, linked data, semantic web, metacognition, virtue epistemology, trust, technology, augmented reality, personalization, wearable technology, cloud computing, extended knowledge, active externalism
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Smart, Paul
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2018
Smart, Paul
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Smart, Paul
(2018)
Emerging digital technologies: Implications for extended conceptions of cognition and knowledge.
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Carter, J. Adam, Clark, Andy, Kallestrup, Jesper, Palermos, S. Orestis and Pritchard, Duncan
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Extended Epistemology.
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This chapter explores the cognitive and epistemic implications of emerging digital technologies from the standpoint of two philosophical positions: active externalism and virtue reliabilism. Emerging digital technologies (especially those associated with the Internet and World Wide Web) are important because they help to highlight issues that are not so easily revealed by the rather mundane and technologically low-grade examples favored by the philosophical community. The present analysis suggests that the general thrust of technology design is largely consistent with the criteria that have been used to evaluate putative cases of cognitive extension. In addition, the present analysis suggests that active externalism and virtue reliabilism are broadly compatible when it comes to the notion of extended knowledge. Despite this, a consideration of both the properties of emerging digital technologies and the requirements for extended knowledge reveals something of an unexpected tension between our prospective status as extended cognizers and extended knowers.
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Accepted/In Press date: 13 November 2017
e-pub ahead of print date: June 2018
Published date: 2018
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epistemology, world wide web, web science, extended cognition, extended mind, linked data, semantic web, metacognition, virtue epistemology, trust, technology, augmented reality, personalization, wearable technology, cloud computing, extended knowledge, active externalism
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Paul Smart
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J. Adam Carter
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Andy Clark
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Jesper Kallestrup
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S. Orestis Palermos
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Duncan Pritchard
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