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Knowledge and practical interests /

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Jason Stanley presents a startling and provocative claim about knowledge; that is whether or not someone knows a proposition at a given time is in part determined by his or her practical interests, i.e. by how much is at stake for that person at that time.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Stanley, Jason
Corporate Author: Oxford University Press
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Clarendon Press, 2005.
Series:Lines of thought.
Subjects:
Knowledge, Theory of.
Subjectivity.
Semantics (Philosophy)
Psycholinguistics.
Psycholinguistics
Théorie de la connaissance.
Sémantique (Philosophie)
Psycholinguistique.
epistemology.
psycholinguistics.
PHILOSOPHY > Epistemology.
Knowledge, Theory of
Subjectivity
Wissen
Begriff
Praktische Vernunft
Subjectiviteit.
Semantiek.
Psycholinguïstiek.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Contextualism
  • Knowledge ascriptions and gradability
  • Knowledge ascriptions and context-sensitivity
  • Contextualism on the cheap?
  • Interest-relative invariantism
  • Interest-relative invariantism vs. Contextualism
  • Interest-relative invariantism vs. Relativism
  • Contextualism, interest-relativism, and philosophical paradox.