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Probabilistic Knowledge Sarah Moss (Associate Professor of Philosophy, Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)

Probabilistic Knowledge von Sarah Moss (Associate Professor of Philosophy, Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)

Zusammenfassung

Sarah Moss argues that in addition to full beliefs, credences can constitute knowledge. She introduces the notion of probabilistic content and shows how it plays a central role not only in epistemology, but in the philosophy of mind and language. Just you can believe and assert propositions, you can believe and assert probabilistic contents.

Probabilistic Knowledge Zusammenfassung

Probabilistic Knowledge Sarah Moss (Associate Professor of Philosophy, Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)

Traditional philosophical discussions of knowledge have focused on the epistemic status of full beliefs. Sarah Moss argues that in addition to full beliefs, credences can constitute knowledge. For instance, your 0.4 credence that it is raining outside can constitute knowledge, in just the same way that your full beliefs can. In addition, you can know that it might be raining, and that if it is raining then it is probably cloudy, where this knowledge is not knowledge of propositions, but of probabilistic contents. The notion of probabilistic content introduced in this book plays a central role not only in epistemology, but in the philosophy of mind and language as well. Just as tradition holds that you believe and assert propositions, you can believe and assert probabilistic contents. Accepting that we can believe, assert, and know probabilistic contents has significant consequences for many philosophical debates, including debates about the relationship between full belief and credence, the semantics of epistemic modals and conditionals, the contents of perceptual experience, peer disagreement, pragmatic encroachment, perceptual dogmatism, and transformative experience. In addition, accepting probabilistic knowledge can help us discredit negative evaluations of female speech, explain why merely statistical evidence is insufficient for legal proof, and identify epistemic norms violated by acts of racial profiling. Hence the central theses of this book not only help us better understand the nature of our own mental states, but also help us better understand the nature of our responsibilities to each other.

Probabilistic Knowledge Bewertungen

Essential reading for philosophers of language, semanticists, and formal epistemologists. . . . Probabilistic Knowledge offers a persuasive case for a radical revision of some foundational ideas about the nature of content and communication. . . . rich and rewarding. * Daniel Greco, Journal of Philosophy *
The title concept of this book, probabilistic knowledge, involves a radical revision of some central ideas of epistemology. But it ends up providing a more unified account of many phenomena of recent interest. Philosophers with an interest in the formal semantics of conditionals or epistemic modals, and epistemologists working on contextualism or the interaction of credence and belief, should probably read most or all of this book. And many other philosophers should also find a copy. * Kenny Easwaran, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews *

Über Sarah Moss (Associate Professor of Philosophy, Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)

Sarah Moss is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She received her A.B. in Mathematics from Harvard University and her B.Phil. in Philosophy from Oxford University, where she studied as a Marshall Scholar. She received her Ph.D. in Philosophy with a minor in Linguistics from MIT in 2009.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1: The case for probabilistic contents 2: The case for probabilistic assertion 3: Epistemic modals and probability operators 4: Indicative conditionals 5: The case for probabilistic knowledge 6: Factivity 7: Skepticism 8: Knowledge and belief 9: Knowledge and action 10: Knowledge and persons Appendix: A formal semantics for epistemic vocabulary

Zusätzliche Informationen

GOR013416625
9780198858096
0198858094
Probabilistic Knowledge Sarah Moss (Associate Professor of Philosophy, Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)
Gebraucht - Sehr Gut
Broschiert
Oxford University Press
2020-02-27
280
Winner of Winner of the APA 2020 Sanders Book Prize.
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