Epistemic Styles
Carolina Flores,
PhilPapers,
Dec 27, 2021
People interact with evidence in different ways, writes Carolina Flores. "Epistemic styles are ways of interacting with evidence that express unified sets of epistemic values, preferences, goals, and interests." This paper (22 page PDF) describes a few epistemic styles as examples: the paranoid style, expressive of "heated exaggeration, suspiciousness, and conspiratorial fantasy"; the rationalist style, "characterized by adhesion to Bayesian reasoning and by a 'scout mindset', rooted in curiosity and willingness to change one's mind"; and a lived experience style "preferring testimony from people with relevant experiences... and testimony that is conveyed with emotion over coldly expressed points. They are disposed to seek out and value a wide range of distinctive perspectives." Image: Winther.
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