Knowledge and Asymmetric Loss
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21823152 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alexander Dinges (0000-0002-2768-3839, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 1055-1076 |
| Publication date | 2023-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Review of Philosophy and Psychology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1878-5158 • E-ISSN: 1878-5166 |
| Publisher | Springer Science and Business Media LLC (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1007/s13164-021-00596-9 |
| OpenAlex | W3214348875 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 43 |
This paper offers a novel account of practical factor effects on knowledge attributions that is consistent with the denial of contextualism, relativism and pragmatic encroachemt. The account goes as follows. Knowledge depends on factors like safety, reliability or probability. In many cases, it is uncertain just how safe, how reliably formed or how probable the target proposition is. This means that we have to estimate these quantities in order to form knowledge judgements. Such estimates of uncertain quantities are independently known to be affected by pragmatic factors. When overestimation is costlier than underestimation, for instance, we tend to underestimate the relevant quantity to avoid greater losses. On the suggested account, high stakes and other pragmatic factors induce such “asymmetric loss functions” on quantities like safety, reliability and probability. This skews our estimates of these quantities and thereby our judgements about knowledge. The resulting theory is an error-theory, but one that rationlizes the error in question
Attribution · Contextualism · Denial · Econometrics · Epistemology · Falsity · Metaphysics · Philosophy of language · Philosophy of mind · Philosophy of science · Proposition · Relativism · Computer Science · Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics · Mathematics · Misinformation and Its Impacts · Philosophy · Psychology · Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment · Social Psychology
On Folk Epistemology
Knowledge and Lotteries
Knowledge in an Uncertain World
The Oxford Handbook of Skepticism
Much at stake in knowledge
Dilating and contracting arbitrarily
Can We Do Without Pragmatic Encroachment
Delimiting the Proper Scope of Epistemology
Knowledge and non-traditional factors
Evidence, Pragmatics, and Justification
Solving the Skeptical Problem
From subjective probabilities to decision weights
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |