Knowledge and Lotteries

Name: Knowledge and Lotteries
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ISBN: 9780199287130

ISBN-10: 0199287139

ISBN-13: 9780199287130

Edition: 2005

Authors: John Hawthorne

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Knowledge and Lotteries is organized around an epistemological puzzle: in many cases, we seem consistently inclined to deny that we know a certain class of propositions, while crediting ourselves with knowledge of propositions that imply them. In its starkest form, the puzzle is this: we do not think we know that a given lottery ticket will be a loser, yet we normally count ourselves as knowing all sorts of ordinary things that entail that its holder will not suddenly acquire a large fortune. After providing a number of specific and general characterizations of the puzzle, Hawthorne carefully examines the competing merits of candidate solutions. In so doing, he explores a number of central…

Book details

List price: $68.00
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 1/19/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 216
Size: 5.28" wide x 7.95" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English



knowledge And Lotteries


Knowledge and Lotteries


Acknowledgements



Introducing the Puzzle



Contextualism and the Puzzle



Skeptical and Moderate Invariantism



Sensitive Moderate Invariantism


References


Index