TY - JOUR
T1 - Open your eyes and look harder! (An investigation into the idea of a responsible visual search)
AU - Schroer, Robert
PY - 2008
Y1 - 2008
N2 - In this paper, I explore and defend the idea that we have epistemic responsibilities with respect to our visual searches, responsibilities that are far more fine-grained and interesting than the trivial responsibilities to keep our eyes open and "look hard." In order to have such responsibilities, we must be able to exert fine-grained and interesting forms of control over our visual searches. I present both an intuitive case and an empirical case for thinking that we do, in fact, have such forms of control over our visual searches. I then show how these forms of control can be used to aim the visual beliefs that result from our searches toward various epistemic goals.
AB - In this paper, I explore and defend the idea that we have epistemic responsibilities with respect to our visual searches, responsibilities that are far more fine-grained and interesting than the trivial responsibilities to keep our eyes open and "look hard." In order to have such responsibilities, we must be able to exert fine-grained and interesting forms of control over our visual searches. I present both an intuitive case and an empirical case for thinking that we do, in fact, have such forms of control over our visual searches. I then show how these forms of control can be used to aim the visual beliefs that result from our searches toward various epistemic goals.
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U2 - 10.1111/j.2041-6962.2008.tb00126.x
DO - 10.1111/j.2041-6962.2008.tb00126.x
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:60950475299
SN - 0038-4283
VL - 46
SP - 409
EP - 430
JO - Southern Journal of Philosophy
JF - Southern Journal of Philosophy
IS - 3
ER -