title: Epistemic virtues, metavirtues, and computational complexity creator: Morton, Professor Adam subject: Complexity Theory subject: Philosophy of Mind subject: Epistemology 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, or efficient ways of finding shortcuts, to cognitively expensive routines. It follows that agents must possess the capacities – metavirtues –of developing in advance the cognitive virtues they will need when time and memory are at a premium. date: 2003-04 type: Preprint type: PeerReviewed format: application/pdf identifier: http://cogprints.org/2886/1/Epistemic_virtues%2C_metavirtues%2C_and_computational_complexity.pdf identifier: Morton, Professor Adam (2003) Epistemic virtues, metavirtues, and computational complexity. [Preprint] relation: http://cogprints.org/2886/