In: Filozofia, vol. 75, no. 8
Filip Tvrdý 
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Year, pages: 2020, 693 - 705
Language: cze
Keywords:
Epistemology – Philosophy of science – Mysterianism – Noam Chomsky – Colin McGinn – Division of cognitive labour – Distributed understanding – Knowledge illusion
Article type: State / Original Articles
Document type: Časopis / Journal
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Mysterianism has become a popular stance in philosophy of consciousness and other philosophical subdisciplines. The aim of this paper is to show that mysterianism is not justified, mainly because its inclination to epistemic defeatism and the misunderstanding of the division of epistemic labour. In the first part, I will present the history of mysterianism in the 19th and 20th century philosophy. Then, in the second part, I will point out how epistemic defeatism is founded in the unwarranted philosophical futurology. The third part will deal with the division of labour in society, language and knowledge. Because of the division of epistemic labour, the understanding is distributed among numerous agents without possibility of individual comprehension. Finally, I will coin the term “ignorance illusion” that plays the central role in the mysterians’ worldview.
Mysterianism has become a popular stance in philosophy of consciousness and other philosophical subdisciplines. The aim of this paper is to show that mysterianism is not justified, mainly because its inclination to epistemic defeatism and the misunderstanding of the division of epistemic labour. In the first part, I will present the history of mysterianism in the 19th and 20th century philosophy. Then, in the second part, I will point out how epistemic defeatism is founded in the unwarranted philosophical futurology. The third part will deal with the division of labour in society, language and knowledge. Because of the division of epistemic labour, the understanding is distributed among numerous agents without possibility of individual comprehension. Finally, I will coin the term “ignorance illusion” that plays the central role in the mysterians’ worldview.
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Tvrdý, F. 2020. Mysteriánství a dělba epistemické práce. In Filozofia, vol. 75, no.8, pp. 693-705. 0046-385X. DOI: https://doi.org/10.31577/filozofia.2020.75.8.6
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Tvrdý, F. (2020). Mysteriánství a dělba epistemické práce. Filozofia, 75(8), 693-705. 0046-385X. DOI: https://doi.org/10.31577/filozofia.2020.75.8.6
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Publisher: Filozofický ústav SAV / Institute of Phillosophy, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia
Published: 21. 10. 2020
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