Fair enough. We don’t seem to disagree much then, if at all, when it comes to the correctness of what you wrote.
However, in that case, I would still object to your summary in that given the realistic limitations of our current position, we have to use all sorts of messy and questionable procedures to force our opaque and unreliable brains to yield workable and useful knowledge. With this in mind, saying that epistemology is reducible to cognitive science and Bayesian probability, however true in principle, is definitely not true in any practically useful sense. (The situation is actually much worse than in the analogous example of our practical inability to reduce chemistry to physics, since the insight necessary to perform the complete and correct reduction of epistemology, if it ever comes, will have to be somehow obtained using the tools of our present messy and unreliable epistemology.)
Therefore, what is missing from your summary is the statement of the messy and unreliable parts currently incorporated into your epistemology, which is a supremely relevant question precisely because they are so difficult to analyze and describe accurately, since their imperfections will interfere with the very process of their analysis. Another important consideration is that a bold reductionist position may lead one to dismiss too quickly various ideas that can offer a lot of useful insight in this present imperfect position, despite their metaphysical and other baggage.
Fair enough. We don’t seem to disagree much then, if at all, when it comes to the correctness of what you wrote.
However, in that case, I would still object to your summary in that given the realistic limitations of our current position, we have to use all sorts of messy and questionable procedures to force our opaque and unreliable brains to yield workable and useful knowledge. With this in mind, saying that epistemology is reducible to cognitive science and Bayesian probability, however true in principle, is definitely not true in any practically useful sense. (The situation is actually much worse than in the analogous example of our practical inability to reduce chemistry to physics, since the insight necessary to perform the complete and correct reduction of epistemology, if it ever comes, will have to be somehow obtained using the tools of our present messy and unreliable epistemology.)
Therefore, what is missing from your summary is the statement of the messy and unreliable parts currently incorporated into your epistemology, which is a supremely relevant question precisely because they are so difficult to analyze and describe accurately, since their imperfections will interfere with the very process of their analysis. Another important consideration is that a bold reductionist position may lead one to dismiss too quickly various ideas that can offer a lot of useful insight in this present imperfect position, despite their metaphysical and other baggage.
The list of “what is missing from [my] summary” is indeed long! Hence, a “summary.”