Stephen Downes

Knowledge, Learning, Community

This is the callout quote that got me to read this article: "The prevalence of belief based-accounts of knowledge and propositional-attitude approaches has obscured the importance of reliable and virtuous motivation and skills in epistemology and philosophy more generally." I agree - but the interview here with Carlos Montemayor covers much more ground than that, including especially the roles of attention and motivation in knowledge and belief.

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