Knowledge and the State of Nature : an Essay in Conceptual Synthesis.

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Main Author: Craig, Edward
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Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, UK, 1991
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505 0 |a ""Contents""; ""I: Nature and motivation of project. Doubts answered. Plato, Pears, Hobbes, comparison with State-of-Nature Theory in Political Philosophy. Evolutionary epistemology.""; ""II: Derivation of first condition; the problem whether belief necessary. Necessary and sufficient conditions an unsuitable format. The prototypical case.""; ""III: Need for third condition. Discussion of the Nozickâ€?Dretske analysis.""; ""IV: Why causal theory, tracking, reliabilism all good approximations. Why justified true belief a good approximation. Comparison with Grice."" 
505 8 |a ""V: Distinction between Informant and Source of Information its nature and point. Application to putative â€?knowledge without belief cases; and to comparativism: Goldman.""; ""VI: Being right by accident. All analyses insufficient. Blackburn: the Mirv/Pirv principle.""; ""VII: Local v. Global Reliabilism. Discussion of McGinn.""; ""VIII: Externalist and Internalist analyses. The firstperson case. Knowing that one knows.""; ""IX: Insufficiency of the various analyses. The â€?No false lemmaâ€? principle. Its rationaleâ€?and its effect."" 
505 8 |a ""X: Objectivisation. The â€?cart before the horseâ€? objectionâ€?and the response.""""XI: Lotteries and multiple premises: the pull towards certainty. Knowledge and natural laws.""; ""XII: Objectivisation and scepticism. Ungerâ€?s first account.""; ""XIII: Two explanations of scepticism: the first-person approach, and the absolute perspective.""; ""XIV: Knowledge and involvement. What makes truth valuable?.""; ""XV: Testimony and the transmission of knowledge. Welbourne: believing the speaker."" 
505 8 |a ""XVI: Other locutions: Knowing Fred. Information v. acquaintance. Interacting with Fred. Knowing Londonâ€?and German.""""XVII: Other locutions: Knowing how to. The Inquirer and the Apprentice. â€?Knows how toâ€? compared with â€?canâ€?â€?and with â€?knows thatâ€?.""; ""Appendix: Ungerâ€?s Semantic Relativism.""; ""References""; ""Index of Names"" 
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