--- abstract: '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.' altloc: - http://faculty-staff.ou.edu/M/John.A.Morton-1/complex.html chapter: ~ commentary: ~ commref: ~ confdates: ~ conference: ~ confloc: ~ contact_email: ~ creators_id: - Adam Morton creators_name: - family: Morton given: Adam honourific: Professor lineage: '' date: 2003-04 date_type: published datestamp: 2003-04-16 department: ~ dir: disk0/00/00/28/86 edit_lock_since: ~ edit_lock_until: ~ edit_lock_user: ~ editors_id: [] editors_name: [] eprint_status: archive eprintid: 2886 fileinfo: /style/images/fileicons/application_pdf.png;/2886/1/Epistemic_virtues%2C_metavirtues%2C_and_computational_complexity.pdf full_text_status: public importid: ~ institution: ~ isbn: ~ ispublished: ~ issn: ~ item_issues_comment: [] item_issues_count: 0 item_issues_description: [] item_issues_id: [] item_issues_reported_by: [] item_issues_resolved_by: [] item_issues_status: [] item_issues_timestamp: [] item_issues_type: [] keywords: 'cognition, computational complexity, epistemology, epistemic virtue, metavirtue, virtue' lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:55:15 latitude: ~ longitude: ~ metadata_visibility: show note: ~ number: ~ pagerange: ~ pubdom: FALSE publication: ~ publisher: ~ refereed: TRUE referencetext: |- Baddeley, A.D (1986) Working Memory, Oxford University Press. Cherniak, Christopher (1986) Minimal Rationality, MIT Press. Foley, Richard (1993) Working without a net, Oxford University Press. Gathercole, Susan and Alan Baddeley (1993) Working memory and language, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. Goldman Alvin (1992) “Reliablism,” in Jonathan Dancy and Ernest Sosa A Companion to Epistemology, Blackwell. Goldman Alvin (1999) “Internalism exposed,” Journal of philosophy 6, 1999, pp 271-93. Greco, John (2001) “Virtues and rules in epistemology,” in Abrol Fairweather and Linda Zagzebski, eds. Virtue epistemology: essays on epistemic virtue and responsibility, Oxford University Press, pp 117-141. Harman, Gilbert (1986) Change in View, MIT Press. Harman, Gilbert (1999) Reasoning, meaning, and mind, Oxford University Press. Hookway, Christopher (1999) “Epistemic norms and theoretical deliberation,” Ratio 12, 1999, pp. 380-398. Immerman, Neil (1999) Descriptive Complexity, Springer. Jackson, Frank and Robert Pargetter (1986) “Oughts, Options, and Actualism,” Philosophical Review 95, 1986, pp. 233-255. Johnson-Laird, Philip (1983) Mental Models, Harvard University Press. Levi, Isaac (1967) Gambling with Truth, Knopf. Leake, David B (1998) “Case-based reasoning,” in William Bechtel and George Graham. eds. A companion to cognitive science, Blackwell Publishers. Lipman, Barton (1991) “How to decide how to decide how to …: Modeling Limited Rationality,” Econometrica, 59, pp. 1105-1125. Maher, Patrick (1993) Betting on theories, Cambridge University Press. Millgram, Elijah (1991) “Harman’s hardness arguments,” Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 72, pp 181-202. Morton, Adam (2002) “Beware stories: emotions and virtues,” in Peter Goldie, ed. Understanding Emotions Ashgate, pp 55-63. Nussbaum, Martha (1990) Love’s knowledge, Oxford University Press Papadimitriou, C. (1994) Computational Complexity, Addison-Wesley, 1994 Rubinstein, Ariel (1988) Modelling bounded rationality, MIT Press. Smith, Holly (1986) “Moral realism, moral conflict and compound acts,” Journal of Philosophy, 83, 1986, pp 341- 360. Sosa, Ernest (1991) Knowledge in perspective, Cambridge University Press. Sosa, Ernest (1999) “Skepticism and the internal/external divide,” in The Blackwell guide to epistemology, Blackwell Publishers, pp. 145-157. Williamson, Timothy (2000) Knowledge and its limits, Oxford University Press Zagzebski, Linda (1996) Virtues of the mind, Cambridge University Press. Zimmerman, Michael J. (1996) The structure of moral obligation, Cambridge University Press. relation_type: [] relation_uri: [] reportno: ~ rev_number: 12 series: ~ source: ~ status_changed: 2007-09-12 16:47:18 subjects: - comp-sci-complex-theory - phil-mind - phil-epist succeeds: ~ suggestions: ~ sword_depositor: ~ sword_slug: ~ thesistype: ~ title: 'Epistemic virtues, metavirtues, and computational complexity' type: preprint userid: 3894 volume: ~