Knowledge and lotteries / John Hawthorne.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hawthorne, John (John P.), author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Justification (Theory of knowledge).

Semantics (Philosophy).

Knowledge, Theory of.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 205 pages)

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Clarendon ; Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This work 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. The text explores questions on the nature and importance of knowledge.

Contents:

1. Introducing the Puzzle

2. Contextualism and the Puzzle

3. Skeptical and Moderate Invariantism

4. Sensitive Moderate Invariantism.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [193]-199) and index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-19-928713-9

1-281-19869-2

9786611198695

0-19-153349-1

1-4294-2085-5

OCLC:

76966707