Catherine Elgin, "Epistemic Ecology" (MIT Press, 2025)

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Mar 3, 202660:22Society & Culture

Humans are highly inquisitive, yet fallible and cognitively limited. How can we improve our epistemic lot despite our limitations? In Epistemic Ecology (MIT Press, 2025), Catherine Elgin develops a model in which individ...

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