Applied cognitive psychology and the "strong replacement" of epistemology by normative psychology

Philosophy of the Social Sciences

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 55-75

  Lee, Carole J ^a  

^a MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Ameliorative psychology; Applied cognitive psychology; Applied Naturalized Epistemology; Epistemics; Heuristics and biases; Naturalized epistemology; Normative psychology; Rationality; Strategic reliabilism; Strong replacement

Indexed keywords

EID: 38949156713     PISSN: 00483931     EISSN: 15527441     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0048393107311025     Document Type: Article

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