Knowing and Checking

An Epistemological Investigation

AvGuido Melchior

Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum:2019-05-02
Mått:152 x 229 x 19 mm
Vikt:498 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Routledge Studies in Epistemology
Antal sidor:278
Förlag:Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN:9780367141127

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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, and Episteme among other journals.

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"Knowing and Checking explores several important issues, providing an account of checking, charting the connections between checking and knowing, and further investigating the role of sensitivity within epistemology."-Robert Weston Siscoe, Acta Analytica

Innehållsförteckning

Part I: CheckingChapter 1: Introduction: The Methodological Approach Chapter 2: Modal Knowledge Accounts Chapter 3: SAC: A Sensitivity Account of Checking Chapter 4: Checking, Alternatives, and DiscriminationChapter 5: Checking, Inferences, and NecessitiesPart II: Checking and Knowledge PuzzlesChapter 6: SAC and Knowledge PuzzlesChapter 7: Checking and BootstrappingChapter 8: SAC and the Skeptical Puzzle