Cognition as a Social Skill
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Author(s)
Haslanger, Sally
Date Issued
January 2019
Journal
Australasian Philosophical Review
Publisher
Informa UK Limited
Citation
Haslanger, Sally. "Cognition as a Social Skill." Australasian Philosophical Review 3, 1 (January 2019): 5-25.
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Author's final manuscript
Abstract
Much contemporary social epistemology takes as its starting point individuals with sophisticated propositional attitudes and considers (i) how those individuals depend on each other to gain (or lose) knowledge through testimony, disagreement, and the like and (ii) if, in addition to individual knowers, it is possible for groups to have knowledge. In this paper I argue that social epistemology should be more attentive to the construction of knowers through social and cultural practices: socialization shapes our psychological and practical orientation so that we perform local social practices fluently. Connecting practical orientation to an account of ideology, I argue that to ignore the ways in which cognition is socially shaped and filtered is to allow ideology to do its work unnoticed and unimpeded. Moreover, ideology critique cannot simply challenge belief, but must involve challenges to those practices through which we ourselves become the vehicles and embodiments of ideology.
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MIT Program in Women's and Gender Studies
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DOI of Published Version
https://doi.org/10.1080/24740500.2019.1705229
