Epistemic vigilance

Dan Sperber; Fabrice Clément; Christophe Heintz; Olivier Mascaro; Hugo Mercier; Gloria Origgi; Deirdre Wilson

doi:10.1111/j.1468-0017.2010.01394.x

Epistemic vigilance

Dan Sperber^*
, Fabrice Clément
, Christophe Heintz
, Olivier Mascaro
, Hugo Mercier
, Gloria Origgi
, Deirdre Wilson

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Humans massively depend on communication with others, but this leaves them open to the risk of being accidentally or intentionally misinformed. To ensure that, despite this risk, communication remains advantageous, humans have, we claim, a suite of cognitive mechanisms for epistemic vigilance. Here we outline this claim and consider some of the ways in which epistemic vigilance works in mental and social life by surveying issues, research and theories in different domains of philosophy, linguistics, cognitive psychology and the social sciences.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	359-393
Number of pages	35
Journal	Mind and Language
Volume	25
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0017.2010.01394.x
State	Published - Sep 2010

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