?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=Epistemic+virtues%2C+metavirtues%2C+and+computational+complexity&rft.creator=Morton%2C+Professor+Adam&rft.subject=Complexity+Theory&rft.subject=Philosophy+of+Mind&rft.subject=Epistemology&rft.description=I+argue+that+considerations+about+computational+complexity+show+that+all+finite+agents+need+characteristics+like+those+that+have+been+called+epistemic+virtues.+The+necessity+of+these+virtues+follows+in+part+from+the+nonexistence+of+shortcuts%2C+or+efficient+ways+of+finding+shortcuts%2C+to+cognitively+expensive+routines.+It+follows+that+agents+must+possess+the+capacities+%E2%80%93+metavirtues+%E2%80%93of+developing+in+advance+the+cognitive+virtues+they+will+need+when+time+and+memory+are+at+a+premium.&rft.date=2003-04&rft.type=Preprint&rft.type=PeerReviewed&rft.format=application%2Fpdf&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F2886%2F1%2FEpistemic_virtues%252C_metavirtues%252C_and_computational_complexity.pdf&rft.identifier=++Morton%2C+Professor+Adam++(2003)+Epistemic+virtues%2C+metavirtues%2C+and+computational+complexity.++%5BPreprint%5D+++++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F2886%2F