An eco-cognitive model of ignorance immunization

Abstract

In 2005, Woods described the epistemic bubble as an immunized state of human cognition that compromises the awareness of the agent about her beliefs and knowledge. The idea of an immunized knower swung with the proposal advanced by Gabbay and Woods of constructing a practical logic and epistemology, which can actually define itself as agent-centered, goal-oriented, and resource-bound. In order to carry out this project, in this paper we will introduce a symmetrical view on the agent immunization, focused on the agent’s missing awareness of her ignorance, also highlighting the importance of considering the actual agent as cogently ignorant, too. Eventually, we will formulate an idea of ignorance that can be fruitfully studied in the newborn field of naturalized epistemology and logic.