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The Epistemic Relevance of Morphological Content

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Author	Horgan, Terry Potrč, Matjaž
Copyright Year	2010
Abstract	Morphological content is information that is implicitly embodied in the standing structure of a cognitive system and is automatically accommodated during cognitive processing without first becoming explicit in consciousness. We maintain that much belief-formation in human cognition is essentially morphological: i.e., it draws heavily on large amounts of morphological content, and must do so in order to tractably accommodate the holistic evidential relevance of background information possessed by the cognitive agent. We also advocate a form of experiential evidentialism concerning epistemic justification—roughly, the view that the justification-status of an agent’s beliefs is fully determined by the character of the agent’s conscious experience. We have previously defended both the thesis that much belief-formation is essentially morphological, and also a version of evidentialism. Here we explain how experiential evidentialism can be smoothly and plausibly combined with the thesis that much of the cognitive processing that generates justified beliefs is essentially morphological. The leading idea is this: even though epistemically relevant morphological content does not become explicit in consciousness during the process of belief-generation, nevertheless such content does affect the overall character of conscious experience in an epistemically significant way: it is implicit in conscious experience, and is implicitly appreciated by the experiencing agent.
Starting Page	155
Ending Page	173
Page Count	19
File Format	PDF
ISSN	03535150
Journal	Acta Analytica
Volume Number	25
Issue Number	2
e-ISSN	18746349
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Netherlands
Publisher Date	2010-02-25
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Morphological content Experiential evidentialism Chromatic illumination Epistemic justification Background Implicit and explicit information Philosophy of Mind Epistemology Metaphysics Logic Philosophy
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Philosophy

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