Against knowledge closure / Marc Alspector-Kelly, Western Michigan University.
| Author/creator | Alspector-Kelly, Marc author. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication | Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2019. |
| Description | 1 online resource (viii, 246 pages) |
| Supplemental Content | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Subjects |
| Contents | 1 Motivation, strategy, and definition : Closure as axiom -- Why care? -- Strategy -- Defining closure -- KC -- Transmission and warrant -- The problem with KC -- Transmission versus penetration. 2 Counterexamples : Zebra -- basis fallibilism -- Dretske cases -- Vogel against the counterexamples -- A plethora of inclinations -- The argument by counterexample -- The chapters to follow. 3 Denying premise I: skepticism : Why skepticism? -- Downgrading -- Piecemeal and wholesale skeptical hypotheses -- The skeptical closure argument -- Front-loading -- Underdetermination -- Conclusion. 4 Denying premise 2: warrant transmission : Warrant transmission and Williamson's insight -- No inevitable false negatives -- NIFN, fallibilism, and insensitivity -- Method individuation -- Method externalism -- NIFN and other Dretske cases. 5 Transmission, skepticism, and conditions of warrant : Transmission and skepticism -- Transmission and conditions of warrant -- Transmission and safety -- Transmission and reliabilism -- Transmission and evidentialism -- Summary of the last two chapters. 6 Front-loading : Warrant preservation without transmission -- Front-loading -- The front-loading strategy -- The buck-passing argument -- And not just front-loading -- A safe way out? -- Explaining transmission failure -- The closure advocate's dilemma. 7 Denying premise 3: warrant for P as warrant for Q : Setting aside buck-passing -- Putting inference out of a job -- THe irrelevance of B to Q. 8 Denying premise 4: warrant by background information : Outline of the chapter -- Background information and wholesale skeptical hypothesis -- Background information and piecemeal skeptical hypothesis -- Explaining the lottery intuition -- Warrant infallibilism and the lottery intuition -- Merricks' arguments for warrant infallibilism -- Summary. 9 Denying premise 5: warrant by entitlement : Warrants by entitlement -- Entitlement and skepticism -- The meaning of "warrant" -- Strategic entitlement -- Entitlement of cognitive project -- Conclusion. 10 Abominable conjunctions, contextualism, and the spreading problem : Arguing against closure denial -- Abominable conjunctions -- Abominable conjunctions and contextualism -- Contextualism and anti-skeptical sources of warrant -- Abominable conjunctions and interest-relative invariantism -- Abominable conjunctions and classical moderate invariantism -- Abominable conjunctions and the knowledge rule -- Assumptions and skepticism -- The spreading problem. 11 Bootstrapping, epistemic circularity, and justification closure : Bootstrapping -- Bootstrapping and NIFN -- Bootstrapping and epistemic circularity -- More easy knowledge -- Justification closure -- Justification, skepticism, and assumptions. References -- Index. |
| Abstract | Knowledge closure is the claim that, if an agent S knows P, recognizes that P implies Q, and believes Q because it is implied by P, then S knows Q. Closure is a pivotal epistemological principle that is widely endorsed by contemporary epistemologists. Against Knowledge Closure is the first book-length treatment of the issue and the most sustained argument for closure failure to date. Unlike most prior arguments for closure failure, Marc Alspector-Kelly's critique of closure does not presuppose any particular epistemological theory; his argument is, instead, intuitively compelling and applicable to a wide variety of epistemological views. His discussion ranges over much of the epistemological landscape, including skepticism, warrant, transmission and transmission failure, fallibilism, sensitivity, safety, evidentialism, reliabilism, contextualism, entitlement, circularity and bootstrapping, justification, and justification closure. As a result, the volume will be of interest to any epistemologist or student of epistemology and related subjects. |
| Source of description | Print version record. |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Alspector-Kelly, Marc. Against Knowledge Closure. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, ©2019 9781108474023 |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 1108578055 |
| ISBN | 9781108578059 (electronic bk.) |
| ISBN | 9781108604093 (electronic bk.) |
| ISBN | 1108604099 (electronic bk.) |
| ISBN | (hardback) |
| ISBN | (paperback) |
| ISBN | 1108474020 |
| ISBN | 9781108474023 |
| ISBN | 1108463290 |
| ISBN | 9781108463294 |
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