Posted: Jan 02, 2016 1:43 pm
I think I know now what my initial question/post was supposed to be:
How does one deal with social constructs when you have (want?) an epistemic world-view?
Mind I am not talking about epistemic constructs, psychological constructs etc. but about social constructs (although certain psychological constructs within normative logic might also apply).
The only possible answer I see, is that you need some level of self-deception, but how do you deceive yourself when you know you are deceiving yourself? Moreover, how do you maintain a self-deception and at the same time be epistemicaly rational?
Living life effectively (whatever that may be) involves being instrumentally rational. And while epistemics can help with that in some cases; more often than not it is based on dynamic, deontic or doxastic modality rather than epistemics (afaics).
I'm not making statements here, just trying to convey my thoughts and looking for answers/help/correction.
How does one deal with social constructs when you have (want?) an epistemic world-view?
Mind I am not talking about epistemic constructs, psychological constructs etc. but about social constructs (although certain psychological constructs within normative logic might also apply).
The only possible answer I see, is that you need some level of self-deception, but how do you deceive yourself when you know you are deceiving yourself? Moreover, how do you maintain a self-deception and at the same time be epistemicaly rational?
Living life effectively (whatever that may be) involves being instrumentally rational. And while epistemics can help with that in some cases; more often than not it is based on dynamic, deontic or doxastic modality rather than epistemics (afaics).
I'm not making statements here, just trying to convey my thoughts and looking for answers/help/correction.