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1. 1. Epistemic Ecology

   

   This work argues that knowing is an embodied, socially embedded practice best understood ecologically: cognitive agents, their practices, and the institutions and environments that sustain them form interdependent systems whose health depends on how well they foster reliable, intelligible, and morally responsible inquiry. It challenges narrowly individualistic and truth-centered accounts of knowledge by emphasizing values such as understanding, coherence, epistemic trust, and aesthetic and moral dimensions that guide attention and judgment; it treats intellectual virtues, communal arrangements, and educational and institutional design as crucial for cultivating good epistemic habits. Combining conceptual analysis with attention to practical policy implications, the book urges we assess and shape our cognitive environments to promote epistemic flourishing rather than merely tallying isolated true beliefs.

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2. 2. Considered Judgment

   

   The work defends a view of judgment as a reflective, constructive achievement in which intellectual and aesthetic values—coherence, simplicity, richness, explanatory power, and exemplification—play essential roles alongside truth and evidence; understanding, not merely justified true belief, is central to epistemic appraisal. It argues that examples, models, and representations can embody and convey cognitive virtues, and that good judgment emerges from bringing these virtues into balance through critical reflection rather than from rigid rules of justification.

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3. 3. True Enough

   Learning to Live in a Post-Factual World

   

   The author argues that what matters in public life is not an abstract, absolute correspondence to reality but whether beliefs, models, and narratives are reliable enough for our purposes and promote understanding; knowledge is fundamentally social, dependent on trustworthy practices, institutions, and the cultivation of intellectual virtues, so fighting misinformation requires more than fact-checking — it requires improving the social processes by which evidence is gathered, interpreted, and shared. The book explains how cognitive biases, partisan incentives, and persuasive rhetoric undermine shared judgment, and it offers pragmatic strategies for fostering better public reasoning: clearer standards for evidence, better education in critical inquiry, and institutional reforms that reward honesty and accountability. Overall it defends a pragmatic, normative account of truth and knowledge aimed at sustaining democratic discourse in a “post-fact” culture.

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