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- Title
On perceptual expertise.
- Authors
Stokes, Dustin
- Abstract
Expertise is a cognitive achievement that involves experience and learning and that requires explicit, time‐consuming training specific to the relevant domain. It is intuitive that many such experts—radiologists, bird watchers, fingerprint examiners, and so forth—are better perceivers in the domain(s) of their expertise. The goal of this paper is to motivate three related claims. Perceptual expertise is genuinely perceptual and genuinely cognitive, and this phenomenon reveals how we can become epistemically better perceivers. These claims are defended against opponents that deny significant cognitive effects on perception, and opponents who maintain that any such effects on perception are epistemically pernicious.
- Subjects
EXPERTISE; BIRD watchers; VIRTUE epistemology; RADIOLOGISTS
- Publication
Mind & Language, 2021, Vol 36, Issue 2, p241
- ISSN
0268-1064
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/mila.12270