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Knowledge and Lotteries (Hardcover)
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Knowledge and Lotteries (Hardcover)
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Knowledge and Lotteries is organized around an epistemological
puzzle: in many cases, we seem consistently inclined to deny that
we know a certain class of propositions, while crediting ourselves
with knowledge of propositions that imply them. In its starkest
form, the puzzle is this: we do not think we know that a given
lottery ticket will be a loser, yet we normally count ourselves as
knowing all sorts of ordinary things that entail that its holder
will not suddenly acquire a large fortune. After providing a number
of specific and general characterizations of the puzzle, Hawthorne
carefully examines the competing merits of candidate solutions. In
so doing, he explores a number of central questions concerning the
nature and importance of knowledge, including the relationship of
knowledge to assertion and practical reasoning, the status of
epistemic closure principles, the merits of various brands of
scepticism, the prospects for a contextualist account of knowledge,
and the potential for other sorts of salience-sensitive accounts.
Along the way, he offers a careful treatment of pertinent issues at
the foundations of semantics. His book will be of interest to
anyone working in the field of epistemology, as well as to
philosophers of language.
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