Knowledge and the State of Nature
An Essay in Conceptual Synthesis
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10693093 |
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| Authors | Matthias Steup (0000-0003-0517-9639) |
| Year | 1992 |
| Volume | 101 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 856 |
| Publication date | 1992-10-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | REVIEW |
| Review of | Knowledge and the state of nature: An Essay in Conceptual Synthesis, Edward Craig, 1990 |
| Venue | The Philosophical Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0031-8108 • E-ISSN: 1558-1470 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2185936 |
| OpenAlex | W2127541121 |
| Language | EN |
Nature and motivation of project. Doubts answered. Plato, Pears, Hobbes, comparison with state-of-nature theory in political philosophy. Evolutionary epistemology Derivation of first condition the problem whether belief necessary. Necessary and sufficient conditions an unsuitable format. The prototypical case Need for third condition. Discussion of the Nozick - Dretske analysis Why causal theory, tracking, reliabilism all good approximations. Why justified true belief a good approximation. Comparison with Grice Distinction between informant and source of information its nature and point. Application to putative 'knowledge without belief' cases and to comparitivism: Goldman Being right by accident. All analyses insufficient. Blackburn: the Mirv/Pirv principle Local v. global reliabilism. Discussion of McGinn Externalist and internalist analyses. The first-person case. Knowing that one knows Insufficiency of the various analyses. The 'No false lemma' principle. Its rationale - and its effect Objectivisation. The 'cart before the horse' objection - and the response Lotteries and multiple premises: the pull towards certainty. Knowledge and natural laws Objectivisation and scepticism. Unger's first account Two explanations of scepticism: the first-person approach, and the absolute perspective Knowledge and involvement. What makes truth valuable? Testimony and the transmission of knowledge. Welbourne: believing the speaker Other locutions: Knowing Fred. Information v. acquaintance. Interacting with Fred. Knowing London - and German Other locutions: Knowing how to. The inquirier and the apprentice. 'Knows how to' compared with 'can' and with 'knows that' Appendix Unger's semantic relativism References Index
Algorithm · Epistemology · State (computer science) · Computer Science · Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics · Philosophy
Is Deontic Evaluation Capable of Doing What It Is For
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Probability 1
Disagreement and alienation
Testing pragmatic genealogy in political theory
Feminist epistemology and value
Interpersonal Reasoning
The Benefit to Philosophy of the Study of Its History
Reflective Equilibrium as an Ameliorative Framework for Feminist Epistemology
Crítica a las genealogías reales e imaginarias
Virtue Epistemology and the Philosophy of Education
Science as a moral system
Hinge commitments and common knowledge
The Radicalism of Truth‐insensitive Epistemology
Contact with the Nomic
Précis of Assurance
The duty to listen
Nietzschean Autonomy and the Meaning of the “Sovereign Individual”
Knowing the Answer Redux
How to Do Things with Knowledge Ascriptions
Experts
Knowledge, Democracy, and the Internet
The Onlife Manifesto
Loosening the Need-Concept Tie
A Political and Ameliorative State of Nature
When Genealogy Is Called For
Ideas Worth Having
The Uses of Intrinsic Value
Prospects for a Quietist Moral Realism
The Normative Significance of Pragmatic Genealogies
Ideas as Remedies to Inconveniences
Why We Came to Think as We Do
VII — Genealogy, Epistemology and Worldmaking
Epistemic Trespassing
Knowledge and Action
Knowledge and the Gettier Problem
Contextualism in philosophy
Knowledge and its Limits
Reason Versus Power
Genealogical Solutions to the Problem of Critical Distance
Revisiting God's Authority
The Dworkin–Williams debate
Nietzsche’s pragmatic genealogy of justice
Teleologies and the Methodology of Epistemology
Must We Love Epistemic Goods
Separating action and knowledge
Agnosticism and the Ethics of Belief
Purity and Practical Reason
Akrasia and Epistemic Impurism
Vulnerability in Social Epistemic Networks
The architectonic of Foucault's critique
Genealogy
Explanation and evaluation in Foucault's genealogy of morality
A genealogy of politics
Socratic reductionism in ethics
Knowledge as a (Non-factive) Mental State
Knowing with
What is the Point of Being Your True Self? A Genealogy of Essentialist Authenticity
Knowledge is a mental state (at least sometimes)
Is knowledge a social phenomenon
How far can genealogies affect the space of reasons? Vindication, justification and excuses
Ethics and epistemic hopelessness
Re-engineering knowledge
Conceptual ethics, metaepistemology, and normative epistemology
An ethical obligation to ignore the unreliable
Trust, expertise, and the philosophy of science
Aesthetic sense and social cognition
Knowing-how, showing, and epistemic norms
Epistemic contextualism defended
Consuming knowledge claims across contexts
Conceptual engineering, truth, and efficacy
Defending virtue epistemology
Group (epistemic) competence
Doxastic planning and epistemic internalism
Normative scorekeeping
Hedging and the ignorance norm on inquiry
Why subject naturalists need pragmatic genealogy
Epistemic evaluation and the need for ‘impure’ epistemic standards
Philosophical methods under scrutiny
Merely partial definition and the analysis of knowledge
The good, the bad and the insignificant—assessing concept functions for conceptual engineering
In defence of virtue epistemology
Assertion, action, and context
The genealogical method in epistemology
How genealogies can affect the space of reasons
The Impossibility of Skepticism
Knowing and Asserting
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