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  title info:
    title: Iterated knowledge
  name:
    name part: Goldstein, Simon
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2024
    copyright date: 2024
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 160 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
  abstract: Omega knowledge is the strongest kind of knowledge. When you omega know something, you know it. You know that you know it. You possess every iteration of knowledge regarding it. Iterated Knowledge is the first systematic treatment of omega knowledge. Skeptics say that we omega know hardly anything about the world, since infinite iterations of knowledge would require infinitely reliable belief forming methods. Simon Goldstein argues against the skeptics, on the basis that omega knowledge is required for rational assertion and action. For this reason, it is important to develop theories which allow us to have omega knowledge of ordinary claims about the world. The only existing theory that allows this is the KK principle, which implies that you omega know everything that you know. However, the KK principle faces a wide range of well-known counterexamples and theoretical challenges. The goal of this book is therefore to open up new space in epistemology by developing and critically comparing several new theories of omega knowledge. One of these theories says that you omega know everything that you know that you know. Another theory says that, whenever you know something, it is consistent with your knowledge that you omega know it. These theories avoid the classic challenges to the KK principle, while also making room for large amounts of omega knowledge. Along the way, Iterated Knowledge gives treatments of justified belief, rational certainty and normative requirements on assertion and action. The discussion ends by developing mathematical models of knowledge that carefully lay out the differing predictions of the various theories developed in the book.
  table of contents: Cover -- Iterated Knowledge -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- 1: Omega Knowledge Matters -- 1.1 Overview -- 1.2 Against Omega Skepticism -- 1.3 Against KK -- 1.4 Justification -- 2: Reflective Luminosity -- 2.1 Benefits of Reflective Luminosity -- 2.2 Costs of Reflective Luminosity -- 2.3 Weakenings -- 2.4 Conclusion -- 3: Fragility -- 3.1 Clarifying Fragility -- 3.2 Benefits of Fragility -- 3.3 Costs of Fragility -- 3.4 Weakenings -- 3.5 Conclusion -- 4: Variable Margins -- 4.1 Costs of Variable Margins -- 4.2 Conclusion -- 5: Modeling Knowledge -- 5.1 Epistemic Logic -- 5.2 Appearance/Reality Models -- 5.3 Reflective Luminosity -- 5.4 Fragility -- 5.5 Variable Margins -- 6: Conclusion -- 6.1 Comparisons -- 6.2 Loose ends -- 6.2.1 Omega Infallibilism -- 6.2.2 Epistemic Position -- 6.2.3 Beyond Safety -- 6.2.4 Verbal debates -- References -- Index.
  note: Simon Goldstein.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages [151]-156) and index.
  subject:
    topic: Knowledge, Theory of
  classification: BD161 .G6 2024
  classification: 121
  identifier: 9780198885481
  identifier: 0198885482
  identifier: 9780191993992
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    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 240221
    record change date: 20241120144607.2
    record identifier: in00005529262