Practical Knowledge, Equal Standing, and Proper Reliance on Others
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20143736 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Carla Bagnoli (0000-0003-2795-3795, University of Modena‐Reggio Emilia Largo Italy, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 86 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 821-842 |
| Publication date | 2020-12-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Theoria (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0040-5825 • E-ISSN: 1755-2567 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/theo.12246 |
| OpenAlex | W3036462134 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 28 |
According to a traditional account, moral cognition is an achievement gained over time by sharing a practice under the guidance and the example of the wise, in analogy with craft and apprenticeship. This model captures an important feature of practical reason, that is, its incompleteness, and highlights our dependence on others in obtaining moral knowledge, coherently with the socially extended mind agenda and recent findings in empirical psychology. However, insofar as it accords to exemplars’ decisive authority to determine the standard of correctness for moral cognition, the model does not offer protection against arbitrariness and discrimination. The article argues that to understand the socially distributed nature of practical knowledge, we have to discard the notion of exemplars and reconceive of others as having equal normative standing. This claim allows us to revisit the conception of autonomy as key to distributed practical knowledge. While autonomy does not amount to self‐sufficiency and self‐reliance, it does demand independence of judgement and stands in contrast to servility, submission, and other sorts of defective ways of relying on others. The requirement of equal standing provides the basis for distinguishing between proper and improper reliance on others
Analogy · Arbitrariness · Autonomy · Correctness · Epistemology · Independence (probability theory) · Judgement · Normative · Political science · Sociology · Unobservable · Computer Science · Emotions and Moral Behavior · Law · Philosophical Ethics and Theory · Psychology · Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment · Social Psychology
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| Citations per year | 0.8 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2021 - 2026 (6) |
| Highly cited | No |