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TY - GEN ID - cogprints2886 UR - http://cogprints.org/2886/ A1 - Morton, Professor Adam TI - Epistemic virtues, metavirtues, and computational complexity Y1 - 2003/04// N2 - 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. AV - public KW - cognition KW - computational complexity KW - epistemology KW - epistemic virtue KW - metavirtue KW - virtue ER -