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8Stephen Hetherington on epistemology: knowing, more or lessBloomsbury Academic. 2024.Stephen Hetherington's prominent career within epistemology has been a series of distinctive, bold, varied and provocative arguments and ideas. Bringing together Hetherington's unique body of writing for the first time, this collection features previously published as well as new material that link his approaches to key issues including knowledge, justification, fallibility, scepticism and the Gettier Problem. Advancing our understanding of the systemic nature of Hetherington's thinking, Stephen…Read more
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15Defining KnowledgeCambridge University Press. 2022.Post-Gettier epistemology is increasingly modalized epistemology – proposing and debating modally explicable conditionals with suitably epistemic content (an approach initially inspired by Robert Nozick's 1981 account of knowledge), as needing to be added to 'true belief' in order to define or understand knowing's nature. This Element asks whether such modalized attempts – construed as responding to what the author calls Knowing's Further Features question (bequeathed to us by the Meno and the T…Read more
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31Knowledge in Contemporary Philosophy (edited book)Bloomsbury Publishing. 2018."Divided chronologically into four volumes, The Philosophy of Knowledge: A History presents the history of one of Western philosophy's greatest challenges: understanding the nature of knowledge. Each volume follows conceptions of knowledge that have been proposed, defended, replaced, and proposed anew. Knowledge in Contemporary Philosophy covers discussions about scientific knowledge, social knowledge, and self-knowledge, along with attempts to understand knowledge naturalistically, contextually…Read more
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4What is epistemology?Polity. 2019.Doing epistemology -- Kinds of knowledge? -- A first theory of knowledge -- Refining our theory of knowledge -- Is it even possible to have knowledge? -- Applying epistemology.
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30The Cartesian Dreaming Argument for External‐World SkepticismIn Michael Bruce & Steven Barbone (eds.), Just the Arguments, Wiley‐blackwell. 2011-09-16.
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3Knowledge‐That as How‐KnowledgeIn How to Know: A Practicalist Conception of Knowledge, Wiley-blackwell. 2011.This chapter contains sections titled: Knowing How it is that p How‐Knowledge that p and Gradualism Degrees of Knowledge and Degrees of Belief How‐Knowledge that p and Truthmakers Knowledge that p and Gradualism Knowledge‐Gradualism's Central Concept Can there be Minimal Knowledge? Minimal Knowledge as Foundational Knowledge Knowledge‐Gradualism: Closure and Scepticism Knowledge‐Gradualism: Content Externalism and Self‐Knowledge How not to Argue for Knowledge‐Absolutism Linguistic Evidence: Igor…Read more
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1Is this a World Where Knowledge has to Include Justification?In How to Know: A Practicalist Conception of Knowledge, Wiley-blackwell. 2011.This chapter contains sections titled: Justificationism, Broadly Understood The ‘Causally Stable World’ (CSW) Thesis Knowledge Within Causally Fluky Worlds Knowledge as Putatively Pervasive Non‐tethering Justification Linguistic Intuitions Kinds of Intension Conditional Justificationism Knowledge Within Different Possible Worlds Wholly General Justificationism A Thin or Minimal Concept of Justificationism Knowledge Within Causally Semi‐fluky Worlds Evidence and Counter‐Evidence Timothy Williamso…Read more
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8Gettier? No ProblemIn How to Know: A Practicalist Conception of Knowledge, Wiley-blackwell. 2011.This chapter contains sections titled: Gettier Situations A Counter‐Example to ‘Gettier's Official Result’ Ordinary Gettiered Knowledge A Meta‐Gettier Problem Objections Answered Gettier‐Luck as Veritic Luck? Gettier‐Luck is not Veritic Luck Gettier‐Luck is Combinatorial Luck Combinatorial Luck: Applications Knowing in a Combinatorially Lucky Way Gettier‐Holism Versus Gettier‐Partialism Combinatorial Safety Combinatorial Gradational Safety Epistemological Privilege and Epistemological Empathy Ge…Read more
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1A Practicalist Conception of KnowledgeIn How to Know: A Practicalist Conception of Knowledge, Wiley-blackwell. 2011.This chapter contains sections titled: This Book's Theory: A Summary and a Name Core Problems Evaded Further Practicalist Reconceptions A Predictive Practicalism? J. L. Austin on ‘Trouser‐words’ Wittgensteinian Certainty — Generalised.
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11The Standard Analytic Conception of KnowledgeIn How to Know: A Practicalist Conception of Knowledge, Wiley-blackwell. 2011.This chapter contains sections titled: ‘Knowing is a Belief State (or Something Similar)’ ‘Knowledge is Well Supported’ ‘Knowledge is Absolute’ ‘Knowing Includes not being Gettiered’ ‘Knowledge‐that is Fundamentally Theoretical, not Knowledge‐how’ The Standard Analytic Conception of Knowledge Prima Facie Core Problems.
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6Knowledge‐That as Knowledge‐HowIn How to Know: A Practicalist Conception of Knowledge, Wiley-blackwell. 2011.This chapter contains sections titled: The Rylean Distinction The Rylean Argument Wittgenstein on Rule‐following The Knowledge‐as‐Ability Hypothesis Justification Grades of Knowledge Denying Knowledge‐Absolutism: Clear Precedents Denying Knowledge‐Absolutism: Possibly only Apparent Precedents Sceptical Challenges Sceptical Limitations Epistemic Agents Abilities Rylean Mistakes Conclusion.
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ReferencesIn How to Know: A Practicalist Conception of Knowledge, Wiley-blackwell. 2011.The prelims comprise: Half‐Title Page Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Page Table of Contents Preface and Acknowledgements.
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13Knowing-ToIn Karyn L. Lai (ed.), Knowers and Knowledge in East-West Philosophy: Epistemology Extended, Springer Nature. pp. 17-41. 2021.Increasingly, epistemologists are discussing the conceptual relationships between knowledge-that and knowledge-how. This chapter argues that epistemology should also encompass a distinct concept of knowing-to. Only with the addition of knowing-to can knowledge-how ever be manifested in a particular action within a particular setting. Unlike the possibly longer-lasting knowledge-how, knowing-to is fleeting and contextual. It is inherent within what Gilbert Ryle called intelligent acting. In ordin…Read more
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Conceiving of knowledge in modal terms?In Markos Valaris & Stephen Hetherington (eds.), Knowledge in Contemporary Philosophy, Bloomsbury Publishing. 2018.
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Introduction: Theorizing about theorizing about knowledgeIn Markos Valaris & Stephen Hetherington (eds.), Knowledge in Contemporary Philosophy, Bloomsbury Publishing. 2018.
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Knowledge and knowledge-claims: Austin and beyondIn Savas L. Tsohatzidis (ed.), Interpreting J. L. Austin: Critical Essays, Cambridge University Press. 2017.
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The luck/knowledge incompatibility thesisIn Ian M. Church & Robert J. Hartman (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy and Psychology of Luck, Routledge. 2019.
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11What is epistemology?Polity. 2019.Doing epistemology -- Kinds of knowledge? -- A first theory of knowledge -- Refining our theory of knowledge -- Is it even possible to have knowledge? -- Applying epistemology.
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Fallible Knowing, Fallible ActingIn Stephen Hetherington & David Macarthur (eds.), Living Skepticism. Essays in Epistemology and Beyond, Brill. 2022.
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Introduction: Skepticism as a Way of ThinkingIn Stephen Hetherington & David Macarthur (eds.), Living Skepticism. Essays in Epistemology and Beyond, Brill. 2022.
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23Knowing failably and Moorean assertionsPhilosophical Issues 32 (1): 32-45. 2022.Knowledge‐fallibilism is a species of a genus that I call knowledge‐failabilism. Each is a theory of knowledge's nature. One apparent challenge to knowledge‐failabilism's truth is theprima facieabsurdity of Moorean assertions like ‘It's raining but I do not believe that it is.’ Does each such assertion convey an implicit and unfortunate contrast, even a contradiction? I argue that thisUntenable Contrast analysisfails: no such contrast is present within the speaker's perspective at the pertinent …Read more
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26Living Skepticism. Essays in Epistemology and Beyond (edited book)BRILL. 2022._Living Skepticism_ challenges the philosophical orthodoxy that dismisses skepticism as an intellectual embarrassment or overreaction. In this original collection of adventurous and engaging papers, skepticism is demonstrated to be true or insightful enough to form the core of an enlightened philosophy.
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32Joseph L. Camp Jr., Confusion: A Study in the Theory of Knowledge (review)Philosophical Review 116 (4): 647-650. 2007.
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261Knowing How and Knowing ToIn Brian Bruya (ed.), The Philosophical Challenge from China, Mit Press. 2015.Since the 1940s, Western epistemology has discussed Gilbert Ryle’s distinction between knowledge-that and knowledge-how. Ryle argued that intelligent actions – manifestations of knowledge-how – are not constituted as intelligent by the guiding intervention of knowledge-that: knowledge-how is not a kind of knowledge-that; we must understand knowledge-how in independent terms. Yet which independent terms are needed? In this chapter, we consider whether an understanding of intelligent action must i…Read more
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