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" The nature and value of knowledge : "
Duncan Pritchard, Alan Millar, Adrian Haddock.
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1042902
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b797272
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Pritchard, Duncan.
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The nature and value of knowledge : : three investigations /\ Duncan Pritchard, Alan Millar, Adrian Haddock.
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Oxford ;New York :: Oxford University Press,, ©2010.
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1 online resource (xii, 274 pages)
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0191582905
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: 0191723363
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: 0199586268
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: 9780191582905
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: 9780191723360
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: 9780199586264
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-270) and index.
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| Contents
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The value problem -- Unpacking the value problem -- The swamping problem -- fundamental and non-fundamental epistemic goods -- The relevance of epistemic value monism -- Responding to the swamping problem I : the practical response -- Responding to the swamping problem II : the monistic response -- Responding to the swamping problem III : the pluralist response -- Robust virtue epistemology -- Knowledge and achievement -- Interlude : is robust virtue epistemology a reductive theory of knowledge? -- Achievement without achievement -- Back to the value problem -- Contra virtue epistemology -- Two master intuitions about knowledge -- Anti-luck virtue epistemology -- Interlude : is anti-luck virtue epistemology a reductive theory of knowledge? -- Diagnosing the structure of knowledge -- Back to the value problem -- The final value of achievements -- Understanding -- Understanding and epistemic luck -- Understanding and cognitive achievement -- Back to the value problem -- Two potential implications of the distinctive value of understanding thesis -- The traditional analytical project and the central tension -- Knowledge, evidence, and reasons -- Concepts versus phenomena -- The way ahead -- Perceptual-recognitional abilities -- Broad and narrow competence -- Avoiding reduction -- Perpetual-recognitional abilities -- Broad and narrow competence -- Avoiding reduction -- Perceptual knowledge and justified belief -- Closure and doxastic responsibility -- Knowledge from indicators -- Recognitional abilities again -- Detached standing knowledge -- Back to knowledge from indicators -- Taking stock -- Why knowledge matters -- Approaching the epistemology of testimony -- Telling and informing -- Acquiring true beliefs and acquiring knowledge through being told -- Access to facts about knowledge -- The modest route -- Fool's knowledge -- The distinctive value of knowledge -- Fool's justification -- Arguing from illusion -- The regress of justifications -- Transparency and knowledge -- Transparency and entitlement -- On trying to do without transparency -- Transparency and luminosity -- Non-sensible knowledge -- Self-knowledge -- Non-sensible knowledge of action -- The two dimensions -- The distinctive value of knowledge of action -- Non-observational knowledge -- Practical knowledge and intention -- Practical knowledge and direction of fit.
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This volume comprises three distinct investigations into the relationship between the nature & the value of knowledge. The three sections look at 'knowledge & understanding', 'knowledge & recognition', & 'knowledge & action'. Each section is written by one of the authors in consultation with the other two.
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Knowledge, Theory of.
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Knowledge, Theory of.
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PHILOSOPHY-- Epistemology.
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121
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BD161.P75 2010eb
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Haddock, Adrian.
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Millar, Alan,1947-
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