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1 online resource (287 pages) |
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Routledge Studies in Epistemology Ser |
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Routledge Studies in Epistemology
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| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Series Page; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; PART I Checking; 1 Introduction: The Methodological Approach; 2 Modal Knowledge Accounts; 2.1 Nozick's Modal Knowledge Account; 2.2 Problems for Nozick's Modal Knowledge Account; 2.3 Sensitivity Accounts: The Second Wave; 2.4 Safety; 3 SAC: A Sensitivity Account of Checking; 3.1 Checking and Other Epistemic Actions; 3.2 Modality: From Beliefs to Methods; 3.3 Perfect Checking Methods; 3.4 Checking and Sensitivity; 3.5 Checking and Safety; 3.6 Asymmetric Methods, Adherence, and Negative Safety; 3.7 Checking and Knowing |
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3.8 Resolving the Generality Problem3.9 Resolving Kripke's Closure Problem; 4 Checking, Alternatives, and Discrimination; 4.1 Checking and Alternatives; 4.2 Checking and Discriminating; 5 Checking, Inferences, and Necessities; 5.1 Nozick on Inferential Knowledge; 5.2 Checking and Inferences; 5.3 Checking and Necessary Truths; PART II Checking and Knowledge Puzzles; 6 SAC and Knowledge Puzzles; 6.1 SAC and Knowledge Puzzles: The Core Connection; 6.2 Low-Stakes/High-Stakes Puzzles; 6.3 Closure Puzzles; 6.3.1 KSAC-Explanations of Closure Puzzles; 6.3.2 KSAC-Solutions to Closure Puzzles |
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6.3.3 KSAC-Explanations of Closure Puzzles and Alternative Explanations7 Checking and Bootstrapping; 7.1 Bootstrapping and Checking; 7.2 Bootstrapping and Knowing; 7.2.1 Explaining the Bootstrapping Puzzle; 7.2.2 Solutions to the Bootstrapping Puzzle; 8 SAC and the Skeptical Puzzle; 8.1 The Skeptical Puzzle and the Moorean Puzzle; 8.2 Explaining the Skeptical Puzzle; 8.2.1 Doubting and Checking One's Own Beliefs; 8.2.2 Varieties and Limits of Checking Beliefs; 8.2.3 Explaining and Solving the Moorean Puzzle; 8.3 The Heterogeneity Problem |
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8.3.1 The Heterogeneity Problem for Higher-Level Beliefs8.3.2 The Heterogeneity Problem for Moorean Reasoning; 8.3.3 The Heterogeneity Problem for Existing Sensitivity Accounts of Knowledge; 8.3.4 Resolving the Heterogeneity Problem; 8.3.5 Resolving a Generality Problem for Moorean Reasoning; Appendix; References; Index |
| Summary |
Checking is a very common concept for describing a subject's epistemic goals and actions. Surprisingly, there has been no philosophical attention paid to the notion of checking. This is the first book to develop a comprehensive epistemic theory of checking. The author argues that sensitivity is necessary for checking but not for knowing, thereby finding a new home for the much discussed modal sensitivity principle. He then uses the distinction between checking and knowing to explain central puzzles about knowledge, particularly those concerning knowledge closure, bootstrapping and the skeptical puzzle. Knowing and Checking: An Epistemological Investigation will be of interest to epistemologists and other philosophers looking for a general theory of checking and testing or for new solutions to central epistemological problems |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Guido Melchior is Privatdozent and project leader at the University of Graz and recurring visiting scholar at the University of Arizona. He has previously published in Philosophical Studies, Erkenntnis, andEpisteme among other journals |
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Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force. WlAbNL |
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Print version record |
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Knowledge, Theory of.
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epistemology.
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PHILOSOPHY -- Epistemology.
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PHILOSOPHY -- General.
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Knowledge, Theory of.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780429030239 |
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0429030231 |
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9780429641770 |
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9780429635434 |
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0429635435 |
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042964177X |
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9780429638602 |
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0429638604 |
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