The Appearance of Ignorance : Knowledge, Skepticism, and Context, Volume 2
by
Keith DeRose
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Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
0199564477
ISBN-13
9780199564477
Publisher
Oxford University Press
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Oxford University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jan 15th, 2018
Print length
320 Pages
Weight
638 grams
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24.00 x 16.50 x 2.60 cms
Product Classification:
Philosophy of languagePhilosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge
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Keith DeRose presents, develops, and defends original solutions to two of the stickiest problems in epistemology: skeptical hypotheses and the lottery problem. He deploys a powerful version of contextualism, the view that the epistemic standards for the attribution of knowledge vary with context.
Contextualism, the view that the epistemic standards a subject must meet in order for a claim attributing "knowledge" to her to be true do vary with context, has been hotly debated in epistemology and philosophy of language during the last few decades. This volume presents, develops, and defends contextualist solutions to two of the stickiest problems in epistemology: the puzzles of skeptical hypotheses and of lotteries. It is argued that, at least by ordinary standards for knowledge, we do know that skeptical hypotheses are false, and that we''ve lost the lottery. Why it seems that we don''t know that they''re false tells us a lot, both about what knowledge is and how knowledge attributions work.The Appearance of Ignorance is the companion volume to Keith DeRose''s 2009 title The Case for Contextualism: Knowledge, Skepticism, and Context, Volume 1.
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