Probabilistic Knowledge
Traditional philosophical discussions of knowledge have focused on the epistemic status of full beliefs. Sarah Moss argues that in addition to full beliefs, credences can constitute knowledge. For instance, your 0.4 credence that it is raining outside can constitute knowledge, in just the same way that your full beliefs can. In addition, you can know that it might be raining, and that if it is raining then it is probably cloudy, where this knowledge is not knowledgeof propositions, but of probabilistic contents.The notion of probabilistic content introduced in this book plays a central role not only in epistemology, but in the philosophy of m…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-19-251059-4
- EAN: 9780192510594
- Produktnummer: 25916757
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
- Seitenangabe: 224 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 513 KB
Über den Autor
Sarah Moss is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She received her A.B. in Mathematics from Harvard University and her B.Phil. in Philosophy from Oxford University, where she studied as a Marshall Scholar. She received her Ph.D. in Philosophy with a minor in Linguistics from MIT in 2009.
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