Epistemic Cognition and Development: The Psychology of Justification and Truth

by David Moshman

Book Overview

Epistemic cognition, the philosophical core of metacognition, concerns people's knowledge about the justification and truth of beliefs. Multiple literatures in psychology and education address aspects of epistemic cognition. In the absence of a coherent conceptual framework, however, these literatures mostly fail to communicate with each other and often connect only loosely to genuine epistemology. This complicates any effort to achieve a systematic...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1848725140
• ISBN13: 9781848725140
• Release Date: June 2016
• Publisher: Psychology Press
• Length: 186 Pages
• Weight: 0.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"