One of the key supposed 'platitudes' of contemporary epistemology is the claim that knowledge excludes luck. One can see the attraction of such a claim, in that knowledge is something that one can take credit for - it is an achievement of sorts - and yet luck undermines genuine achievement. The problem, however, is that luck seems to be an all-pervasive feature of our epistemic enterprises, which tempts us to think that either scepticism is true and that we don't know very much, or else that luck is compatible with knowledge after all. In this book, Duncan Pritchard argues that we do not need to choose between these two austere alternatives, since a closer examination of what is involved in the notion of epistemic luck reveals varieties of luck that are compatible with knowledge possession and varieties that aren't. Moreover, Pritchard shows that a more nuanced understanding of the relationship between luck and knowledge can cast light on many of the most central topics in contemporary epistemology. These topics include: the externalism/internalism distinction; virtue epistemology; the problem of scepticism; metaepistemological scepticism; modal epistemology; and the problem of moral luck. All epistemologists will need to come to terms with Pritchard's original and incisive contribution.
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Offers a philosophical examination of the concept of luck and its relationship to knowledge. This work shows how an understanding of the relationship between knowledge and luck can enable us to see our way past some of the most intractable disputes in the contemporary theory of knowledge.
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I. SCEPTICISM ; II. EPISTEMIC LUCK
This book is a tour de force.
The first rigorous philosophical account of the role of luck in our thinking Shows how luck is key to central debates in epistemology Radical implications for theories of knowledge First book by a brilliant young scholar
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The first rigorous philosophical account of the role of luck in our thinking Shows how luck is key to central debates in epistemology Radical implications for theories of knowledge First book by a brilliant young scholar
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ISBN
9780199280384
Publisert
2005
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Oxford University Press
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1 gr
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242 mm
Bredde
162 mm
Dybde
22 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
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Engelsk
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Antall sider
306

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