Jul 25, 2015 10:21 AM
http://philosopherscocoon.typepad.com/bl...iefs-.html
EXCERPT: [...] Some authors, such as Chris Tucker, have argued that skilled perception provides prima facie justification in the same way as ordinary perception does. The example he provides is of an ordinary person, seeing a sea creature, who obtains a justified belief she sees sea creature, whereas an expert, like Jack Sparrow, forms the justified belief that there is a bottlenose dolphin. I want to resist the idea that ordinary perception and skilled perception can lead to justified beliefs in an analogous way.
As I outlined in a previous post, both ordinary and skilled perception feel phenomenologically natural, but their genesis is very different: ordinary perceptual skills come about by normal interactions with our environment, practiced skills require many hours deliberate practice and being taught or apprenticed before they start feeling natural. Do such skills provide us with justification, and if so, how? The peculiar thing about skilled perception is that without the requisite deliberate practice (e.g., hours of observing X-rays during one's medical internship) the relevant perceptual features remain unobservable....
EXCERPT: [...] Some authors, such as Chris Tucker, have argued that skilled perception provides prima facie justification in the same way as ordinary perception does. The example he provides is of an ordinary person, seeing a sea creature, who obtains a justified belief she sees sea creature, whereas an expert, like Jack Sparrow, forms the justified belief that there is a bottlenose dolphin. I want to resist the idea that ordinary perception and skilled perception can lead to justified beliefs in an analogous way.
As I outlined in a previous post, both ordinary and skilled perception feel phenomenologically natural, but their genesis is very different: ordinary perceptual skills come about by normal interactions with our environment, practiced skills require many hours deliberate practice and being taught or apprenticed before they start feeling natural. Do such skills provide us with justification, and if so, how? The peculiar thing about skilled perception is that without the requisite deliberate practice (e.g., hours of observing X-rays during one's medical internship) the relevant perceptual features remain unobservable....