The nature and value of knowledge : three investigations / Duncan Pritchard, Alan Millar, Adrian Haddock.

Author/creator Pritchard, Duncan
Other author Millar, Alan, Ph. D.
Other author Haddock, Adrian.
Format Book
Publication InfoOxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.
Descriptionxii, 274 pages ; 24 cm
Subjects
Knowledge, Theory of.

Contents Pt. I. Knowledge and understanding. 1. The value problem for knowledge -- The value problem -- Unpacking the value problem -- The swamping problem -- Fundamental and non-fundamental epistemic goods -- The relevance of epistemic value monism -- Responding to the swamping problem I : the practical response -- Responding to the swamping problem II : the monistic response -- Responding to the swamping problem III : the pluralist response -- Concluding remarks -- 2. Knowledge and final value. Introduction -- Robust virtue epistemology -- Knowledge and achievement -- Interlude : is robust virtue epistemology a reductive theory of knowledge? -- Achievement without knowledge -- Knowledge without achievement -- Back to the value problem -- Concluding remarks -- 3. Anti-luck virtue epistemology. Introduction -- Contra virtue epistemology -- Two master intuitions about knowledge -- Anti-luck virtue epistemology -- Interlude : Is anti-luck virtue epistemology a reductive theory of knowledge? -- Diagnosing the structure of knowledge -- Back to the value problem -- Concluding remarks -- 4. Understanding. Introduction -- The final value of achievements -- Understanding -- Understanding and epistemic luck -- Understanding and cognitive achievement -- Back to the value problem -- Two potential implications of the distinctive value of understanding thesis -- Concluding remarks -- pt. II. Knowledge and recognition. 5. Knowledge in recent epistemology : some problems -- Introduction -- The traditional analytical project and the central tension -- Knowledge, evidence, and reasons -- Concepts versus phenomena -- The way ahead -- 6. Perceptual knowledge and recognitional abilities. Introduction -- Perceptual-recognitional abilities -- Broad and narrow competence -- Avoiding reduction -- Perceptual knowledge and justified belief -- Closure and doxastic responsibility -- 7. Knowledge from indicators. Introduction -- Knowledge from indicators -- Recognitional abilities again -- Detached standing knowledge -- Back to knowledge from indicators -- Taking stock -- 8. The social transmission of knowledge. Why knowledge matters -- Approaching the epistemology of testimony -- Telling and informing -- Acquiring true beliefs and acquiring knowledge through being told -- Access to facts about knowledge -- pt. III. Knowledge and action. 9. Knowledge and justification -- Introductory remarks -- The modest route -- Fool's knowledge -- The distinctive value of knowledge -- Fool's justification -- Arguing from illusion -- The regress of justifications -- Concluding remarks -- 10. Second-order knowledge. Introductory remarks -- Transparency and knowledge -- Transparency and entitlement -- On trying to do without transparency -- Transparency and luminosity -- Non-sensible knowledge -- Self-knowledge -- Concluding remarks -- 11. Knowledge of action. Introductory remarks -- Non-sensible knowledge of action -- The two dimensions -- The distinctive value of knowledge of action -- Non-observational knowledge -- Practical knowledge and intention -- Practical knowledge and direction of fit -- Concluding remarks
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2010920357
ISBN9780199586264 (hbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN0199586268 (hbk. : alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks BD161 .P7489 2010 ✔ Available Place Hold