The Ethical Turn in Epistemic Cognition

Knight, S

The Ethical Turn in Epistemic Cognition

Knight, S

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Publisher:: International Society of the Learning Sciences
Publication Type:: Conference Proceeding
Citation:: 2020
Issue Date:: 2020-06

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dc.contributor.author	Knight, S https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8709-5780
dc.date	2020
dc.date.accessioned	2021-01-04T00:00:58Z
dc.date.available	2021-01-04T00:00:58Z
dc.date.issued	2020-06
dc.identifier.citation	2020
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/145056
dc.description.abstract	An engaged, informed citizenry is important for tackling many of the words most pressing sustainability issues. Epistemic cognition research may play a key role in understanding and developing such capacities. Recent shifts in epistemic cognition that draw on social epistemology are to be welcomed, however, there is further potential here in drawing on a recent ethical turn in epistemology to make explicit the ethical assumptions underpinning the area of epistemic cognition. That is, that epistemic cognition has ethical dimensions, including that we (1) care about consequential issues, epistemic issues that have stakes, (2) have epistemic obligations, and (3) should attend to concerns of epistemic injustice. I argue for scoping epistemic cognition to recognize these ethical turns, reflecting that the significance of bringing these concerns – already present in much work – into focus for further inquiry.
dc.language	en
dc.publisher	International Society of the Learning Sciences
dc.relation.isbasedon	10.22318/icls2020.497
dc.rights	info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.title	The Ethical Turn in Epistemic Cognition
dc.type	Conference Proceeding
utslib.location.activity	Online
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Transdisciplinary Innovation
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
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dc.date.updated	2021-01-04T00:00:53Z
pubs.finish-date	2020
pubs.place-of-publication	Nashville, Tennessee
pubs.publication-status	Published online
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dc.location	Nashville, Tennessee

Abstract:

An engaged, informed citizenry is important for tackling many of the words most pressing sustainability issues. Epistemic cognition research may play a key role in understanding and developing such capacities. Recent shifts in epistemic cognition that draw on social epistemology are to be welcomed, however, there is further potential here in drawing on a recent ethical turn in epistemology to make explicit the ethical assumptions underpinning the area of epistemic cognition. That is, that epistemic cognition has ethical dimensions, including that we (1) care about consequential issues, epistemic issues that have stakes, (2) have epistemic obligations, and (3) should attend to concerns of epistemic injustice. I argue for scoping epistemic cognition to recognize these ethical turns, reflecting that the significance of bringing these concerns – already present in much work – into focus for further inquiry.

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