Attributing knowledge : what it means to know something / Jody Azzouni.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Azzouni, Jody, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Knowledge, Theory of.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 464 pages)

Other Title:

What it means to know something

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2020.

Summary:

In this text, Jody Azzouni challenges existing epistemological conventions about knowledge: what it means to know something, who or what is seen as knowing, and how we talk about it. He argues that the classic restrictive conditions philosophers routinely place on knowers only hold in special cases, and suggests that knowledge can be equally attributed to children, sophisticated animals (great apes, orcas), unsophisticated animals (bees), and machinery or devices (driverless cars). Through this perspective and a close examination of its relation to linguistics and psychology, Azzouni freshly approaches longstanding epistemological puzzles including the dogmatism paradox, Gettier puzzles, Agrippa's trilemma, and the surprise-exam paradox.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2020.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on September 15, 2020).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-19-750884-7

0-19-750882-0