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The Appearance of Ignorance

Knowledge, Skepticism, and Context, Volume 2

By (author) Keith DeRose
Format: Hardback
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Oxford, United Kingdom
Published: 18th Jan 2018
Dimensions: w 165mm h 240mm d 26mm
Weight: 638g
ISBN-10: 0199564477
ISBN-13: 9780199564477
Barcode No: 9780199564477
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Synopsis
Contextualism, the view that the epistemic standards a subject must meet in order for a claim attributing "knowledge" to her to be true do vary with context, has been hotly debated in epistemology and philosophy of language during the last few decades. This volume presents, develops, and defends contextualist solutions to two of the stickiest problems in epistemology: the puzzles of skeptical hypotheses and of lotteries. It is argued that, at least by ordinary standards for knowledge, we do know that skeptical hypotheses are false, and that we've lost the lottery. Why it seems that we don't know that they're false tells us a lot, both about what knowledge is and how knowledge attributions work. The Appearance of Ignorance is the companion volume to Keith DeRose's 2009 title The Case for Contextualism: Knowledge, Skepticism, and Context, Volume 1.

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