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Epistemic luck / Duncan Pritchard.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pritchard, Duncan, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Knowledge, Theory of.
- Chance.
- Skepticism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiii, 290 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2005.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Offering a philosophical examination of the concept of luck and its relationship to knowledge, this text demonstrates how a more nuanced understanding of the relationship between knowledge and luck can enable us to see past some of the most intractable disputes in the contemporary theory of knowledge.
- Contents:
- Scepticism in contemporary debate
- Closure and context
- Neo-Mooreanism
- The source of scepticism
- Luck
- Two varieties of epistemic luck
- Cognitive responsibility and epistemic virtues
- Scepticism and epistemic luck
- Epistemic angst
- Postscript: moral luck.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [273]-285) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-160229-9
- 0-19-153566-4
- 1-281-19088-8
- 9786611190880
- 1-4356-2197-2
- OCLC:
- 666911728
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