The Nature and Value of Knowledge: Three Investigations

Contents......Page 10
PART I: KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING ANALYTICAL TABLE OF CONTENTS......Page 16
1.2. Unpacking the Value Problem......Page 18
1.3. The Swamping Problem......Page 21
1.4. Fundamental and Non-fundamental Epistemic Goods......Page 24
1.5. The Relevance of Epistemic Value Monism......Page 26
1.6. Responding to the Swamping Problem I: The Practical Response......Page 29
1.7. Responding to the Swamping Problem II: The Monistic Response......Page 31
1.8. Responding to the Swamping Problem III: The Pluralist Response......Page 33
1.9. Concluding Remarks......Page 36
2.2. Robust Virtue Epistemology......Page 38
2.3. Knowledge and Achievement......Page 41
2.4. Interlude: Is Robust Virtue Epistemology a Reductive Theory of Knowledge?......Page 46
2.5. Achievement without Knowledge......Page 47
2.6. Knowledge without Achievement......Page 53
2.7. Back to the Value Problem......Page 57
2.8. Concluding Remarks......Page 59
3.2. Contra Virtue Epistemology......Page 61
3.3. Two Master Intuitions about Knowledge......Page 64
3.4. Anti-luck Virtue Epistemology......Page 67
3.5. Interlude: Is Anti-luck Virtue Epistemology a Reductive Theory of Knowledge?......Page 71
3.6. Diagnosing the Structure of Knowledge......Page 72
3.7. Back to the Value Problem......Page 75
3.8. Concluding Remarks......Page 78
4.2. The Final Value of Achievements......Page 79
4.3. Understanding......Page 86
4.4. Understanding and Epistemic Luck......Page 90
4.5. Understanding and Cognitive Achievement......Page 93
4.6. Back to the Value Problem......Page 96
4.7. Two Potential Implications of the Distinctive Value of Understanding Thesis......Page 97
4.8. Concluding Remarks......Page 99
PART II: KNOWLEDGE AND RECOGNITION ANALYTICAL TABLE OF CONTENTS......Page 104
5.1. Introduction......Page 110
5.2. The Traditional Analytical Project and the Central Tension......Page 112
5.3. Knowledge, Evidence, and Reasons......Page 123
5.4. Concepts versus Phenomena......Page 128
5.5. The Way Ahead......Page 131
6.1. Introduction......Page 133
6.2. Perceptual-recognitional Abilities......Page 137
6.3. Broad and Narrow Competence......Page 141
6.4. Avoiding Reduction......Page 146
6.5. Perceptual Knowledge and Justified Belief......Page 150
6.6. Closure and Doxastic Responsibility......Page 153
7.1. Introduction......Page 157
7.2. Knowledge from Indicators......Page 162
7.3. Recognitional Abilities Again......Page 164
7.4. Detached Standing Knowledge......Page 168
7.5. Back to Knowledge from Indicators......Page 172
7.6. Taking Stock......Page 175
8.1. Why Knowledge Matters......Page 177
8.2. Approaching the Epistemology of Testimony......Page 182
8.3. Telling and Informing......Page 190
8.4. Acquiring True Beliefs and Acquiring Knowledge through being Told......Page 192
8.5. Access to Facts about Knowledge......Page 199
PART III: KNOWLEDGE AND ACTION ANALYTICAL TABLE OF CONTENTS......Page 204
9.1. Introductory Remarks......Page 208
9.2. The Modest Route......Page 211
9.3. Fool’s Knowledge......Page 215
9.4. The Distinctive Value of Knowledge......Page 217
9.5. Fool’s Justification......Page 223
9.6. Arguing from Illusion......Page 225
9.7. The Regress of Justifications......Page 227
9.8. Concluding Remarks......Page 230
10.1. Introductory Remarks......Page 232
10.2. Transparency and Knowledge......Page 233
10.3. Transparency and Entitlement......Page 236
10.4. On Trying to do without Transparency......Page 239
10.5. Transparency and Luminosity......Page 241
10.6. Non-sensible Knowledge......Page 246
10.7. Self-knowledge......Page 249
10.8. Concluding Remarks......Page 252
11.1. Introductory Remarks......Page 254
11.2. Non-sensible Knowledge of Action......Page 255
11.3. The Two Dimensions......Page 258
11.4. The Distinctive Value of Knowledge of Action......Page 261
11.5. Non-observational Knowledge......Page 263
11.6. Practical Knowledge and Intention......Page 266
11.7. Practical Knowledge and Direction of Fit......Page 269
11.8. Concluding Remarks......Page 272
Bibliography......Page 274
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