Elizabeth Camp, 4:00pm Tuesday November 28th
Rutgers University
Tuesday, November 28th
Swift 107
4:00pm (Reception to follow)
Assessing Frames for Epistemic Aptness
In politics, art, & science, ‘framing devices’ like metaphor and apocryphal facts effectively express intuitive patterns of thought. I argue that despite their potential to mislead, manipulate, and induce cognitive complacency, they can also support epistemically robust access to the world.