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Knowledge Ascriptions

Author : Jessica Brown
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019163123X
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)

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Download or read book Knowledge Ascriptions written by Jessica Brown and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-05-31 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Knowledge ascriptions, such as 'Sam knows that Obama is president of the United States', play a central role in our cognitive and social lives. For example, they are closely related to epistemic assessments of action. As a result, knowledge ascriptions are a central topic of research in both philosophy and science. In this collection of new essays on knowledge ascriptions, world class philosophers offer novel approaches to this long standing topic. The contributions exemplify three recent approaches to knowledge ascriptions. First, a linguistic turn according to which linguistic phenomena and theory are an important resource for providing an adequate account of knowledge ascriptions. Second, a cognitive turn according to which empirical theories from, for example, cognitive psychology as well as experimental philosophy should be invoked in theorizing about knowledge ascriptions. Third, a social turn according to which the social functions of knowledge ascriptions to both individuals and groups are central to understanding knowledge ascriptions. In addition, since knowledge ascriptions have figured very prominently in discussions concerning philosophical methodology, many of the contributions address or exemplify various methodological approaches. The editors, Jessica Brown and Mikkel Gerken, provide a substantive introduction that gives an overview of the various approaches to this complex debate, their interconnections, and the wide-ranging methodological issues that they raise.

Knowledge Ascriptions

Author : Jessica Brown
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199693706
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)

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Download or read book Knowledge Ascriptions written by Jessica Brown and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-05-31 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A team of world class philosophers offer novel approaches to the complex debate of how we ascribe knowledge to subjects. They address the methodological issues that knowledge ascriptions raise, and explore three recent approaches to knowledge ascriptions: a linguistic turn, a cognitive turn, and a social turn.

On Folk Epistemology

Author : Mikkel Gerken
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192525204
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)

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Download or read book On Folk Epistemology written by Mikkel Gerken and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-09-15 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On Folk Epistemology explores how we ascribe knowledge to ourselves and others. Empirical evidence suggests that we do so early and often in thought as well as in talk. Since knowledge ascriptions are central to how we navigate social life, it is important to understand our basis for making them. A central claim of the book is that factors that have nothing to do with knowledge may lead to systematic mistakes in everyday ascriptions of knowledge. These mistakes are explained by an empirically informed account of how ordinary knowledge ascriptions are the product of cognitive heuristics that are associated with biases. In developing this account, Mikkel Gerken presents work in cognitive psychology and pragmatics, while also contributing to epistemology. For example, Gerken develops positive epistemic norms of action and assertion and moreover, critically assesses contextualism, knowledge-first methodology, pragmatic encroachment theories and more. Many of these approaches are argued to overestimate the epistemological significance of folk epistemology. In contrast, this volume develops an equilibristic methodology according to which intuitive judgments about knowledge cannot straightforwardly play a role as data for epistemological theorizing. Rather, critical epistemological theorizing is required to interpret empirical findings. Consequently, On Folk Epistemology helps to lay the foundation for an emerging sub-field that intersects philosophy and the cognitive sciences: The empirical study of folk epistemology.

The Routledge Handbook of Epistemic Contextualism

Author : Jonathan Jenkins Ichikawa
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 131759469X
Total Pages : 502 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (175 download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Handbook of Epistemic Contextualism written by Jonathan Jenkins Ichikawa and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-03-16 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Epistemic contextualism is a recent and hotly debated topic in philosophy. Contextualists argue that the language we use to attribute knowledge can only be properly understood relative to a specified context. How much can our knowledge depend on context? Is there a limit, and if so, where does it lie? What is the relationship between epistemic contextualism and fundamental topics in philosophy such as objectivity, truth, and relativism? The Routledge Handbook of Epistemic Contextualism is an outstanding reference source to the key topics, problems, and debates in this exciting subject and is the first collection of its kind. Comprising thirty-seven chapters by a team of international contributors the Handbook is divided into eight parts: Data and motivations for contextualism Methodological issues Epistemological implications Doing without contextualism Relativism and disagreement Semantic implementations Contextualism outside ‘knows’ Foundational linguistic issues. Within these sections central issues, debates and problems are examined, including contextualism and thought experiments and paradoxes such as the Gettier problem and the lottery paradox; semantics and pragmatics; the relationship between contextualism, relativism, and disagreement; and contextualism about related topics like ethical judgments and modality. The Routledge Handbook of Epistemic Contextualism is essential reading for students and researchers in epistemology and philosophy of language. It will also be very useful for those in related fields such as linguistics and philosophy of mind.

Know How

Author : Jason Stanley
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN 13 : 0199695369
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)

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Download or read book Know How written by Jason Stanley and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2011-08-25 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jason Stanley presents a powerful new account of how we acquire knowledge. He argues for the surprising thesis that practical knowledge is a kind of theoretical knowledge: that knowing how to do something amounts to knowing a truth about the world. It is our success as inquirers that explains our capacity for skilful engagement with the world.

Contextualising Knowledge

Author : Jonathan Jenkins Ichikawa
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199682704
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)

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Download or read book Contextualising Knowledge written by Jonathan Jenkins Ichikawa and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Jonathan Ichikawa develops a contextualist semantics for knowledge ascriptions, and shows how it can illuminate foundational questions in epistemology. He argues that in thinking clearly about knowledge, epistemologists must also think about the dynamic aspects of the words we use to talk about knowledge. Contextualising Knowledge defends a central theoretical role for knowledge in broader theorising - evidence, belief, justification, and assertion are all explained in part in terms of knowledge - but none of these connections can properly be understood or appreciated independently from the contextualist approach to knowledge ascriptions. The book synthesizes two of the biggest ideas in contemporary epistemology: contextualism about knowledge ascriptions, and the 'knowledge first' emphasis on the theoretical primacy of knowledge. Ichikawa argues that the apparent tension between these ideas can be resolved-indeed, a central theme of the book is that each has something important to offer the other. Ichikawa embraces contextualism, emphasizing careful attention to its epistemic assumptions and implications. The result is a novel take on central questions about knowledge and its roles in human life and discourse."--Back cover.

On Folk Epistemology

Author : Mikkel Gerken
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192525212
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)

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Download or read book On Folk Epistemology written by Mikkel Gerken and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-09-22 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On Folk Epistemology explores how we ascribe knowledge to ourselves and others. Empirical evidence suggests that we do so early and often in thought as well as in talk. Since knowledge ascriptions are central to how we navigate social life, it is important to understand our basis for making them. A central claim of the book is that factors that have nothing to do with knowledge may lead to systematic mistakes in everyday ascriptions of knowledge. These mistakes are explained by an empirically informed account of how ordinary knowledge ascriptions are the product of cognitive heuristics that are associated with biases. In developing this account, Mikkel Gerken presents work in cognitive psychology and pragmatics, while also contributing to epistemology. For example, Gerken develops positive epistemic norms of action and assertion and moreover, critically assesses contextualism, knowledge-first methodology, pragmatic encroachment theories and more. Many of these approaches are argued to overestimate the epistemological significance of folk epistemology. In contrast, this volume develops an equilibristic methodology according to which intuitive judgments about knowledge cannot straightforwardly play a role as data for epistemological theorizing. Rather, critical epistemological theorizing is required to interpret empirical findings. Consequently, On Folk Epistemology helps to lay the foundation for an emerging sub-field that intersects philosophy and the cognitive sciences: The empirical study of folk epistemology.

Epistemology

Author : Ernest Sosa
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1405169664
Total Pages : 950 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Epistemology written by Ernest Sosa and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-02-11 with total page 950 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New and thoroughly updated, Epistemology: An Anthology continues to represent the most comprehensive and authoritative collection of canonical readings in the theory of knowledge. Concentrates on the central topics of the field, such as skepticism and the Pyrrhonian problematic, the definition of knowledge, and the structure of epistemic justification Offers coverage of more specific topics, such as foundationalism vs coherentism, and virtue epistemology Presents wholly new sections on 'Testimony, Memory, and Perception' and 'The Value of Knowledge' Features modified sections on 'The Structure of Knowledge and Justification', 'The Non-Epistemic in Epistemology', and 'The Nature of the Epistemic' Includes many of the most important contributions made in recent decades by several outstanding authors

Skeptical Invariantism Reconsidered

Author : Christos Kyriacou
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000405176
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Skeptical Invariantism Reconsidered written by Christos Kyriacou and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-06-27 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of original essays explores the topic of skeptical invariantism in theory of knowledge. It eschews historical perspectives and focuses on this traditionally underexplored, semantic characterization of skepticism. The book provides a carefully structured, state-of-the-art overview of skeptical invariantism and offers up new questions and avenues for future research. It treats this semantic form of skepticism as a serious position rather than assuming that skepticism is false and attempting to diagnose where arguments for skepticism go wrong. The essays take up a wide range of different philosophical perspectives on three key questions in the debate about skeptical invariantism: (1) whether the standards for knowledge vary, (2) how demanding the standards for knowledge are, and (3) whether the kind of evidence, reasons, methods, processes, etc. that we can bring to bear are sufficient to meet those standards. Skeptical Invariantism Reconsidered will be of interest to scholars and advanced students in epistemology and the philosophy of language.

A Companion to David Lewis

Author : Barry Loewer
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118607619
Total Pages : 597 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (186 download)

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Download or read book A Companion to David Lewis written by Barry Loewer and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2015-02-10 with total page 597 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In A Companion to David Lewis, Barry Loewer and Jonathan Schaffer bring together top philosophers to explain, discuss, and critically extend Lewis's seminal work in original ways. Students and scholars will discover the underlying themes and complex interconnections woven through the diverse range of his work in metaphysics, philosophy of language, logic, epistemology, philosophy of science, philosophy of mind, ethics, and aesthetics. The first and only comprehensive study of the work of David Lewis, one of the most systematic and influential philosophers of the latter half of the 20th century Contributions shed light on the underlying themes and complex interconnections woven through Lewis's work across his enormous range of influence, including metaphysics, language, logic, epistemology, science, mind, ethics, and aesthetics Outstanding Lewis scholars and leading philosophers working in the fields Lewis influenced explain, discuss, and critically extend Lewis's work in original ways An essential resource for students and researchers across analytic philosophy that covers the major themes of Lewis's work

Grazer Philosophische Studien

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Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9789042011939
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (119 download)

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Download or read book Grazer Philosophische Studien written by and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2002 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Oxford Studies in Epistemology Volume 1

Author : Tamar Szabo Gendler
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191515922
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)

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Download or read book Oxford Studies in Epistemology Volume 1 written by Tamar Szabo Gendler and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2005-12-01 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oxford Studies in Epistemology is a major new biennial volume offering a regular snapshot of state-of-the-art work in this important field. Under the guidance of a distinguished editorial board composed of leading philosophers in North America, Europe and Australasia, it will publish exemplary papers in epistemology, broadly construed. Topics within its purview include: *traditional epistemological questions concerning the nature of belief, justification, and knowledge, the status of scepticism, the nature of the a priori, etc; *new developments in epistemology, including movements such as naturalized epistemology, feminist epistemology, social epistemology, and virtue epistemology, and approaches such as contextualism; *foundational questions in decision-theory; *confirmation theory and other branches of philosophy of science that bear on traditional issues in epistemology; *topics in the philosophy of perception relevant to epistemology; *topics in cognitive science, computer science, developmental, cognitive, and social psychology that bear directly on traditional epistemological questions; and *work that examines connections between epistemology and other branches of philosophy, including work on testimony and the ethics of belief. Anyone wanting to understand the latest developments at the leading edge of the discipline can start here. Editorial Board Stewart Cohen, Arizona State University Keith DeRose, Yale University Richard Fumerton, University of Iowa Alvin Goldman, Rutgers University Alan Hajek, Australian National University Gilbert Harman, Princeton University Frank Jackson, Australian National University James Joyce, University of Michigan Scott Sturgeon, Birkbeck College London Jonathan Vogel, Amherst College Timothy Williamson, University of Oxford

Knowing What Things Are

Author : André J. Abath
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031073657
Total Pages : 143 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Knowing What Things Are written by André J. Abath and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-08-08 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an account of what is to know what things are, focusing on kinds, both natural (such as water) and social (such as marriage). It brings tools from an area that has received much attention in recent years, the epistemology of inquiry. The knowledge of what things are is to be understood as resulting from successful inquiries directed at questions of the form ‘What is x?’, where x stands for a given kind of thing. The book also addresses knowledge-wh in general (which includes knowledge-who and knowledge-where), as well as the phenomenon of ignorance regarding what things are and our obligations in respect to knowing what things are. It also brings to light new avenues of research for those interested in the relation between the knowledge of what things are and concept possession and amelioration. ‘Knowing What Things Are’ should be of interest to researchers in Epistemology, Philosophy of Language, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Mind, Social Philosophy and Linguistics.

Practical Contexts

Author : Matjaž Potrc
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 311032086X
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Practical Contexts written by Matjaž Potrc and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2013-05-02 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The thought and the findings of moral particularism are extended to contextualism. Moral particularism asserts that reasons for moral actions are not governed by general principles, but by a mixture of situation bound deliberation and values. Particularism was established in the area of moral philosophy and its main results include delimitation with various forms of moral generalism. Many insights were accumulated along the way. The book claims that a serious contextualist approach needs to embrace particularist normativity. Thesis is then applied to the traditional areas of philosophy such as semantics, epistemology and ontology. This makes it possible to ask questions about the positive and not just negative story and about the wider impact of particularism. The book is an attempt of such a positive story. Foundations are laid for an exciting new field of research in the main systematic branches of philosophy, urging you to rethink the normative basis of semantics, epistemology and metaphysics, in their interweaving with moral thought. The importance of narration and of phenomenology is stressed for these areas.

Cognition, Agency and Rationality

Author : K. Korta
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9401710708
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Cognition, Agency and Rationality written by K. Korta and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-09 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As usual, the Proceedings of the International Colloquium on Cognitive Science include leading-edge work by outstanding researchers in the field. This volume contains three kinds of papers corresponding to three of the main disciplines in cognitive science: philosophy, psychology, and artificial intelligence. The title - Cognition, Agency and Rationality - captures the main issues addressed by the papers. Of course, all are concerned with cognition, but some are especially centred on the very concept of rationality, while others focus on (multiple) agency. The diversity of their disciplinary origins and standpoints not only reflects the main topics and the range of different positions presented at ICCS-97, as well as demonstrating the richness, fruitfulness and diversity of research in cognitive science today.

The Oxford Handbook of Assertion

Author : Sanford C. Goldberg
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019067525X
Total Pages : 800 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Assertion written by Sanford C. Goldberg and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-17 with total page 800 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Assertions belong to the family of speech acts that make claims regarding how things are. They include statements, avowals, reports, expressed judgments, and testimonies - acts which are relevant across a host of issues not only in philosophy of language and linguistics but also in subdisciplines such as epistemology, metaphysics, philosophy of mind, ethics, and social and political philosophy. Over the past two decades, the amount of scholarship investigating the speech act of assertion has increased dramatically, and the scope of such research has also grown. The Oxford Handbook of Assertion explores various dimensions of the act of assertion: its nature; its place in a theory of speech acts, and in semantics and meta-semantics; its role in epistemology; and the various social, political, and ethical dimensions of the act. Essays from leading theorists situate assertion in relation to other types of speech acts, exploring the connection between assertions and other phenomena of interest not only to philosophers but also to linguists, psychologists, anthropologists, lawyers, computer scientists, and theorists from communication studies.

Aspects of Knowing

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Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 9780080462691
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (626 download)

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Download or read book Aspects of Knowing written by and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2006-05-19 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acknowledgements Contributors 1. Introduction: The art of precise epistemology Stephen Hetherington Part A. Epistemology as scientific? 2. A problem about epistemic dependence Tim Oakley 3. Accounting for commitments: A priori knowledge, ontology, and logical entailments Michaelis Michael 4. Epistemic bootstrapping Peter Forrest 5. More praise for Moore’s proof Roger White 6. Lotteries and the Close Shave principle John Collins 7. Skepticism, self-knowledge, and responsibility David Macarthur 8. A reasonable contextualism (or, Austin reprised) A. B. Dickerson 9. Questioning contextualism Brian Weatherson Part B. Understanding knowledge? 10. Truthmaking and the Gettier problem Adrian Heathcote 11. Is knowing having the right to be sure? André Gallois 12. Knowledge by intention? On the possibility of agent’s knowledge Anne Newstead 13. Gettier’s theorem John Bigelow 14. Knowledge that works: A tale of two conceptual models Stephen Hetherington