Knowledge ascriptions / edited by Jessica Brown and Mikkel Gerken.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Brown, Jessica (Jessica Anne)

Gerken, Mikkel.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Knowledge, Theory of.

Philosophy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (300 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A team of world class philosophers offer novel approaches to the complex debate of how we ascribe knowledge to subjects. They address the methodological issues that knowledge ascriptions raise, and explore three recent approaches to knowledge ascriptions: a linguistic turn, a cognitive turn, and a social turn.

Contents:

Introduction : Knowledge ascriptions : their semantics, cognitive bases, and social functions / Jessica Brown and Mikkel Gerken

Words, concepts and epistemology / Jessica Brown

Arguing for shifty epistemology / Jeremy Fantl and Matthew McGrath

Knowledge, bets, and interests / Brian Weatherson

Presuppositional epistemic contextualism and the problem of known presuppositions / Michael Blome-Tillman

Abilities and know-how attributions / Ephraim Glick

On the cognitive bases of knowledge ascriptions / Mikkel Gerken

Mindreading in Gettier cases and skeptical pressure cases / Jennifer Nagel

Knowledge, experiments, and practical interests / Ángel Pinillos

Social functions of knowledge attributions / James R. Beebe

Group knowledge attributions / Jennifer Lackey

Epistemic scorekeeping / Patrick Rysiew.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-280-77726-5

9786613687654

0-19-163123-X

OCLC:

922971020