Knowledge, Ignorance and True Belief
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20143162 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Pierre Le Morvan (0000-0002-9746-1043, College of New Jersey, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 77 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 32-41 |
| Publication date | 2011-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Theoria (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0040-5825 • E-ISSN: 1755-2567 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1755-2567.2010.01083.x |
| OpenAlex | W1535061542 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 16 |
| References cited | 10 |
Suppose that knowledge and ignorance are complements in the sense of being mutually exclusive: for person S and fact p, either S knows that p or is ignorant that p. Understood in this way, ignorance amounts to a lack or absence of knowledge: S is ignorant that p if and only if it is not the case that S knows that p. Let us call the thesis that knowledge and ignorance are opposites the “Complement Thesis”. In this article, I discuss its deployment in an ingenious new argument advanced by Alvin Goldman and Erik Olsson (2009 ) which, if sound, establishes that there is a kind of knowledge that amounts to nothing more than true belief. I rebut their argument and in doing so delineate some important epistemological lessons brought to light by the contrast between ignorance and knowledge
Argument (complex analysis) · Complement (music) · Epistemology · Ignorance · Nothing · Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics · Misinformation and Its Impacts · Philosophy · Philosophy and Theoretical Science
Radical ignorance and the Dunning–Kruger effect
On the ignorance, knowledge, and nature of propositions
The Epistemic Dimensions of Ignorance
Epistemic Injustice and the Preservation of Ignorance
A Dilemma for Driver on Virtues of Ignorance
Lucky Ignorance, Modality and Lack of Knowledge
Knowledge, true belief, and the gradability of ignorance
The Pragmatics and the Normativity of Ignorance Attributions
Towards an Epistemology of ‘Speciesist Ignorance’
Omniscience and ignorance
Attitudes towards scientific knowledge
Willful ignorance in law and epistemology
Hinge commitments and common knowledge
A capacity view of ignorance
Introduction
Pointless facts and the normativity of ignorance
| Unique citing works | 16 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1.45 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2026 (12) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 14 |