Good Knowledge, Bad Knowledge On Two Dogmas of Epistemology

by Hetherington, Stephen

• ISBN13: 9780199247349
• ISBN10: 019924734X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-02-07
• Publisher: Clarendon Press

Summary

What is knowledge? How hard is it for a person to have knowledge? Good Knowledge, Bad Knowledge confronts contemporary philosophical attempts to answer those classic questions, offering a theory of knowledge that is unique in conceiving of knowledge in a non-absolutist way.

Author Biography

Stephen Hetherington is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of New South Wales, Australia.

Table of Contents

Epistemic absolutism	1	(25)
Talking about knowledge	1	(6)
Knowledge of a person	7	(3)
Education and improved knowledge	10	(3)
Gilbert Ryle	13	(3)
Fred Dretske	16	(2)
Justification's roles within knowledge	18	(3)
Knowledge of a topic	21	(3)
Conceptions of knowledge	24	(2)
Scepticism	26	(44)
Some sceptical reasoning	26	(1)
Relevant alternatives	27	(2)
Motivating the sceptical reasoning	29	(4)
The sceptic's basic mistake	33	(7)
Knowing failably	40	(7)
Knowing failably and sceptical possibilities	47	(3)
Alternatives and contexts and relevance	50	(6)
Humean scepticism	56	(2)
Sorites scepticism	58	(4)
Imperfect knowledge	62	(5)
Scepticism, schlepticism	67	(3)
Gettier cases	70	(38)
The standard interpretation of Gettier cases	70	(2)
Knowing failably in Gettier cases	72	(16)
Knowing poorly in Gettier cases	88	(4)
Being multiply Gettiered	92	(5)
Merely apparent Gettier cases?	97	(3)
Mark Kaplan	100	(2)
Lottery knowledge	102	(6)
Minimal knowledge	108	(35)
Justificationism	108	(3)
Exam knowledge	111	(13)
Some sorites arguments	124	(7)
Unjustified knowledge	131	(4)
Alvin Goldman	135	(1)
Crispin Sartwell	136	(7)
The spectrum of knowledge	143	(36)
Epistemic gradualism	143	(9)
Guessing and belief	152	(3)
Guessing and knowledge	155	(6)
Causation and knowledge	161	(3)
An inclusive epistemology	164	(5)
G. E. Moore	169	(10)
Knowing about knowledge	179	(23)
Epistemological intuitions	179	(5)
Knowing that one knows	184	(1)
The problem of the criterion	185	(5)
Dogmatism and knowledge	190	(3)
Barry Stroud	193	(9)
References	202	(4)
Index	206