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Knowledge in an Uncertain World (Hardcover)
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Knowledge in an Uncertain World (Hardcover)
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Knowledge in an Uncertain World is an exploration of the relation
between knowledge, reasons, and justification. According to the
primary argument of the book, you can rely on what you know in
action and belief, because what you know can be a reason you have
and you can rely on the reasons you have. If knowledge doesn't
allow for a chance of error, then this result is unsurprising. But
if knowledge does allow for a chance of error - as seems required
if we know much of anything at all - this result entails the denial
of a received position in epistemology. Because any chance of
error, if the stakes are high enough, can make a difference to what
can be relied on, two subjects with the same evidence and generally
the same strength of epistemic position for a proposition can
differ with respect to whether they are in a position to know.
In defending these points, Fantl and McGrath investigate the
ramifications for debates about epistemological externalism and
contextualism, the value and importance of knowledge,
Wittgensteinian hinge propositions, Bayesianism, and the nature of
belief. The book is essential reading for epistemologists,
philosophers who work on reasons and rationality, philosophers of
language and mind, and decision theorists.
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