Epistemic luck / Duncan Pritchard.

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Pritchard, Duncan

Material type: Text

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780191535666
0191535664
9780191602290
0191602299
9780199280384
019928038X

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Epistemic luck.DDC classification:

121.3 22

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BD201 .P75 2005eb

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Contents:

Scepticism in contemporary debate -- Closure and context -- Neo-Mooreanism -- The source of scepticism -- Luck -- Two varieties of epistemic luck -- Cognitive responsibility and epistemic virtues -- Scepticism and epistemic luck -- Epistemic angst -- Postscript: moral luck.

Summary: Offering a philosophical examination of the concept of luck and its relationship to knowledge, this text demonstrates how a more nuanced understanding of the relationship between knowledge and luck can enable us to see past some of the most intractable disputes in the contemporary theory of knowledge.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-285) and index.

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Offering a philosophical examination of the concept of luck and its relationship to knowledge, this text demonstrates how a more nuanced understanding of the relationship between knowledge and luck can enable us to see past some of the most intractable disputes in the contemporary theory of knowledge.

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