Research Catalog

Title

Epistemology modalized / Kelly Becker.

Author

Becker, Kelly, 1966-

Publication

New York : Routledge, 2007.

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Description

x, 174 p.; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Routledge studies in contemporary philosophy ; 4

Subject

• Knowledge, Theory of
• Modality (Theory of knowledge)
• Externalism (Philosophy of mind)

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [165]-170) and indexes.

Contents

Introduction: externalism and modalism -- Externalism -- Modalism -- What should the theory do? -- What's missing? -- Process reliabilism -- Goldman's causal theory -- Goldman's discrimination requirement and relevant alternatives -- Process reliabilism and why it is not enough -- Implications for skepticism -- Sensitivity -- Nozick's subjunctive conditional theory of knowledge -- Methods : an important refinement -- Objections to nozicks theory -- Safety -- Motivating safety -- Weak and strong safety : luck and induction -- Is safety necessary for knowledge? -- Luck revisited : safety requires a process reliability condition -- Is reliability compatible with knowledge of the denials of skeptical hypotheses? -- Knowledge : reliably formed sensitive true belief -- The theory -- Problems and clarifications -- Closure and the value problem -- Closure -- The value problem.

Call Number

JFE 07-5381

ISBN

• 9780415956116 (hardback : alk. paper)
• 0415956110 (hardback : alk. paper)

LCCN

2006033279

OCLC

• 72988249
• vendorOCM72988249

Author

Becker, Kelly, 1966-

Title

Epistemology modalized / Kelly Becker.

Imprint

New York : Routledge, 2007.

Series

Routledge studies in contemporary philosophy ; 4

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. [165]-170) and indexes.

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Research Call Number

JFE 07-5381