When is true belief knowledge? / Richard Foley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Foley, Richard, 1947-

Series:

Princeton monographs in philosophy.

Princeton monographs in philosophy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Knowledge, Theory of.

Belief and doubt.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (162 p.)

Edition:

Course Book

Place of Publication:

Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A woman glances at a broken clock and comes to believe it is a quarter past seven. Yet, despite the broken clock, it really does happen to be a quarter past seven. Her belief is true, but it isn't knowledge. This is a classic illustration of a central problem in epistemology: determining what knowledge requires in addition to true belief. In this provocative book, Richard Foley finds a new solution to the problem in the observation that whenever someone has a true belief but not knowledge, there is some significant aspect of the situation about which she lacks true beliefs--something important that she doesn't quite "get." This may seem a modest point but, as Foley shows, it has the potential to reorient the theory of knowledge. Whether a true belief counts as knowledge depends on the importance of the information one does or doesn't have. This means that questions of knowledge cannot be separated from questions about human concerns and values. It also means that, contrary to what is often thought, there is no privileged way of coming to know. Knowledge is a mutt. Proper pedigree is not required. What matters is that one doesn't lack important nearby information. Challenging some of the central assumptions of contemporary epistemology, this is an original and important account of knowledge.

Contents:

An observation

Post-gettier accounts of knowledge

Knowledge stories

Intuitions about knowledge

Important truths

Maximally accurate and comprehensive beliefs

The beetle in the box

Knowledge blocks

The theory of knowledge and theory of justified belief

The value of true belief

The value of knowledge

The lottery and preface

Reverse lottery stories

Lucky knowledge

Closure and skepticism

Disjunctions

Fixedness and knowledge

Instability and knowledge

Misleading defeaters

Believing that I don't know

Introspective knowledge

Perceptual knowledge

A priori knowledge

Collective knowledge

A look back

Epistemology within a general theory of rationality

The core concepts of epistemology.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613589309

9781280494079

1280494077

9781400842308

1400842301

OCLC:

793359627