Knowing and Checking (e-bog) af Melchior, Guido
Melchior, Guido (forfatter)

Knowing and Checking e-bog

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Checking is a very common concept for describing a subject's epistemic goals and actions. Surprisingly, there has been no philosophical attention paid to the notion of checking. This is the first book to develop a comprehensive epistemic theory of checking. The author argues that sensitivity is necessary for checking but not for knowing, thereby finding a new home for the much discussed modal s...
E-bog 348,37 DKK
Forfattere Melchior, Guido (forfatter)
Forlag Routledge
Udgivet 29 april 2019
Længde 278 sider
Genrer HP
Sprog English
Format pdf
Beskyttelse LCP
ISBN 9780429641770
Checking is a very common concept for describing a subject's epistemic goals and actions. Surprisingly, there has been no philosophical attention paid to the notion of checking. This is the first book to develop a comprehensive epistemic theory of checking. The author argues that sensitivity is necessary for checking but not for knowing, thereby finding a new home for the much discussed modal sensitivity principle. He then uses the distinction between checking and knowing to explain central puzzles about knowledge, particularly those concerning knowledge closure, bootstrapping and the skeptical puzzle. Knowing and Checking: An Epistemological Investigation will be of interest to epistemologists and other philosophers looking for a general theory of checking and testing or for new solutions to central epistemological problems.