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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
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2024
    copyright date: 2024
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (160 pages) : illustrations
  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. This book is the first systematic treatment of omega knowledge. There are two existing theories of omega knowledge. On the one hand, skeptics say that we omega know hardly anything about the world: infinite iterations of knowledge would require infinitely reliable belief-forming methods. This book begins by arguing against the skeptics, by claiming that omega knowledge is a central concept in philosophy. The book argues 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 says that you omega know everything that you know. But the KK principle faces a wide range of well-known counterexamples and theoretical challenges. The goal of this book is 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, the book gives treatments of justified belief, rational certainty, and normative requirements on assertion and action. The book ends by developing mathematical models of knowledge that carefully lay out the differing predictions of the various theories developed in the book"--Publisher's description.
  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 and index.
  subject:
    topic: Knowledge, Theory of
  subject:
    topic: Théorie de la connaissance
  subject:
    topic: epistemology
  subject:
    topic: PHILOSOPHY
  subject:
    topic: Logic
  subject:
    topic: Language
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy
  classification: BD161 .G6 2024
  classification: 121
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    title info:
      title: Iterated knowledge
    name:
      name part: Goldstein, Simon.
    origin info:
      publisher: Oxford, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2024]
    identifier: (DLC) 2024931146
    identifier: (OCoLC)1422576295
  identifier: 9780191993992
  identifier: 0191993999
  identifier: 9780198885481
  identifier: 0198885482
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  record info:
    record content source: STBDS
    record creation date: 240510
    record change date: 20260319204734.0
    record identifier: in00005727087
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng