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Metacognition and Endorsement
Author(s) -
MICHAELIAN KOURKEN
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
mind and language
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.905
H-Index - 68
eISSN - 1468-0017
pISSN - 0268-1064
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-0017.2012.01445.x
Subject(s) - metamemory , metacognition , imperfect , episodic memory , perfect information , cognitive psychology , face (sociological concept) , psychology , computer science , cognitive science , cognition , sociology , linguistics , neuroscience , social science , philosophy , mathematics , mathematical economics
Real agents rely, when forming their beliefs, on imperfect informational sources (sources which deliver, even under normal conditions of operation, both accurate and inaccurate information). They therefore face the ‘endorsement problem’: how can beliefs produced by endorsing information received from imperfect sources be formed in an epistemically acceptable manner? Focussing on the case of episodic memory and drawing on empirical work on metamemory, this article argues that metacognition likely plays a crucial role in explaining how agents solve the endorsement problem.