The surplus value of knowledge

Spohn, Wolfgang

The surplus value of knowledge

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2024

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Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG): EXC 2064/1 390727645
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Theoria: A Swedish Journal of Philosophy. Wiley. 2024, 90(2), S. 208-224. ISSN 0040-5825. eISSN 1755-2567. Verfügbar unter: doi: 10.1111/theo.12521

Zusammenfassung

The Meno problem, asking for the surplus value of knowledge beyond the value of true justified belief, was recently much treated within reliabilist and virtue epistemologies. The answers from formal epistemology, by contrast, are quite poor. This paper attempts to improve the score of formal epistemology by precisely explicating Timothy Williamson's suggestion that ‘present knowledge is less vulnerable than mere present true belief to rational undermining by future evidence’. It does so by combining Nozick's sensitivity analysis of knowledge with Spohn's fact-asserting epistemic interpretation of conditionals. Accordingly, the surplus value of knowledge lies in a specific kind of stability of knowledge, which differs, though, from that claimed by other so-called stability analyses of knowledge.

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100 Philosophie

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epistemic conditionals, fact-asserting conditionals, Meno problem, modal accounts of knowledge, stability theory of knowledge, value of knowledge

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SPOHN, Wolfgang, 2024. The surplus value of knowledge. In: Theoria: A Swedish Journal of Philosophy. Wiley. 2024, 90(2), S. 208-224. ISSN 0040-5825. eISSN 1755-2567. Verfügbar unter: doi: 10.1111/theo.12521

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  year={2024},
  doi={10.1111/theo.12521},
  title={The surplus value of knowledge},
  number={2},
  volume={90},
  issn={0040-5825},
  journal={Theoria: A Swedish Journal of Philosophy},
  pages={208--224},
  author={Spohn, Wolfgang}
}

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