| Pritchard D. The nature and value of knowledge: three investigations / D.Pritchard, A.Millar, A.Haddock. - Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. - xii, 274 p. - Bibliogr.: p.261-270. - Ind.: p.271-274. - ISBN 978-0-19-965515-1
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PART I: KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING ANALYTICAL TABLE OF
CONTENTS ........................................................ 3
1 The Value Problem for Knowledge .............................. 5
1.1 The Value Problem ....................................... 5
1.2 Unpacking the Value Problem ............................. 5
1.3 The Swamping Problem .................................... 8
1.4 Fundamental and Non-fundamental Epistemic Goods ........ 11
1.5 The Relevance of Epistemic Value Monism ................ 13
1.6 Responding to the Swamping Problem I: The Practical
Response ............................................... 16
1.7 Responding to the Swamping Problem II: The Monistic
Response ............................................... 18
1.8 Responding to the Swamping Problem III: The Pluralist
Response ............................................... 20
1.9 Concluding Remarks ..................................... 23
2 Knowledge and Final Value ................................... 25
2.1 Introduction ........................................... 25
2.2 Robust Virtue Epistemology ............................. 25
2.3 Knowledge and Achievement .............................. 28
2.4 Interlude: Is Robust Virtue Epistemology a Reductive
Theory of Knowledge? ................................... 33
2.5 Achievement without Knowledge .......................... 34
2.6 Knowledge without Achievement .......................... 40
2.7 Back to the Value Problem .............................. 44
2.8 Concluding Remarks ..................................... 46
3 Anti-Luck Virtue Epistemology ............................... 48
3.1 Introduction ........................................... 48
3.2 Contra Virtue Epistemology ............................. 48
3.3 Two Master Intuitions about Knowledge .................. 51
3.4 Anti-luck Virtue Epistemology .......................... 54
3.5 Interlude: Is Anti-luck Virtue Epistemology a
Reductive Theory of Knowledge? ......................... 58
3.6 Diagnosing the Structure of Knowledge .................. 59
3.7 Back to the Value Problem .............................. 62
3.8 Concluding Remarks ..................................... 65
4 Understanding ............................................... 66
4.1 Introduction ........................................... 66
4.2 The Final Value of Achievements ........................ 66
4.3 Understanding .......................................... 73
4.4 Understanding and Epistemic Luck ....................... 77
4.5 Understanding and Cognitive Achievement ................ 80
4.6 Back to the Value Problem .............................. 83
4.7 Two Potential Implications of the Distinctive Value
of Understanding Thesis ................................ 84
4.8 Concluding Remarks ..................................... 86
PART II: KNOWLEDGE AND RECOGNITION ANALYTICAL TABLE OF
CONTENTS ....................................................... 91
5 Knowledge in Recent Epistemology: Some Problems ............. 97
5.1 Introduction ........................................... 97
5.2 The Traditional Analytical Project and the Central
Tension ................................................ 99
5.3 Knowledge, Evidence, and Reasons ...................... 110
5.4 Concepts versus Phenomena ............................. 115
5.5 The Way Ahead ......................................... 118
6 Perceptual Knowledge and Recognitional Abilities ........... 120
6.1 Introduction .......................................... 120
6.2 Perceptual-recognitional Abilities .................... 124
6.3 Broad and Narrow Competence ........................... 128
6.4 Avoiding Reduction .................................... 133
6.5 Perceptual Knowledge and Justified Belief ............. 137
6.6 Closure and Doxastic Responsibility ................... 140
7 Knowledge from Indicators .................................. 144
7.1 Introduction .......................................... 144
7.2 Knowledge from Indicators ............................. 149
7.3 Recognitional Abilities Again ......................... 151
7.4 Detached Standing Knowledge ........................... 155
7.5 Back to Knowledge from Indicators ..................... 159
7.6 Taking Stock .......................................... 162
8 The Social Transmission of Knowledge ....................... 164
8.1 Why Knowledge Matters ................................. 164
8.2 Approaching the Epistemology of Testimony ............. 169
8.3 Telling and Informing ................................. 177
8.4 Acquiring True Beliefs and Acquiring Knowledge
through being Told .................................... 179
8.5 Access to Facts about Knowledge ....................... 186
PART III: KNOWLEDGE AND ACTION ANALYTICAL TABLE OF CONTENTS ... 191
9 Knowledge and Justification ................................ 195
9.1 Introductory Remarks .................................. 195
9.2 The Modest Route ...................................... 198
9.3 Fool's Knowledge ...................................... 202
9.4 The Distinctive Value of Knowledge .................... 204
9.5 Fool's Justification .................................. 210
9.6 Arguing from Illusion ................................. 212
9.7 The Regress of Justifications ......................... 214
9.8 Concluding Remarks .................................... 217
10 Second-Order Knowledge ..................................... 219
10.1 Introductory Remarks .................................. 219
10.2 Transparency and Knowledge ............................ 220
10.3 Transparency and Entitlement .......................... 223
10.4 On Trying to do without Transparency .................. 226
10.5 Transparency and Luminosity ........................... 228
10.6 Non-sensible Knowledge ................................ 233
10.7 Self-knowledge ........................................ 236
10.8 Concluding Remarks .................................... 239
11 Knowledge of Action ........................................ 241
11.1 Introductory Remarks .................................. 241
11.2 Non-sensible Knowledge of Action ...................... 242
11.3 The Two Dimensions .................................... 245
11.4 The Distinctive Value of Knowledge of Action .......... 248
11.5 Non-observational Knowledge ........................... 250
11.6 Practical Knowledge and Intention ..................... 253
11.7 Practical Knowledge and Direction of Fit .............. 256
11.8 Concluding Remarks .................................... 259
Bibliography .................................................. 261
Index ......................................................... 271
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