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New in paperback. Hardcover was published in 2004. This exciting new work from one of the world's best young philosophers provides the most thorough discussion of contextualism, a cutting edge topic in epistemology.
Full Description
Knowledge and Lotteries is organized around an epistemological puzzle: in many cases, we seem consistently inclined to deny that we know certain propositions, while crediting ourselves with knowledge of propositions that imply them. In its starkest form, the puzzle is this: we do not think we know that a given lottery ticket will be a loser, yet we normally count ourselves as knowing all sorts of things which entail that its holder will not suddenly acquire a large fortune. After providing a number of specific and general characterizations of the puzzle, Hawthorne carefully examines the competing merits of candidate solutions, addressing along the way a range of central questions concerning the nature and importance of knowledge.
Contents
1. Introducing the Puzzle ; 2. Contextualism and the Puzzle ; 3. Invariantist Treatments ; 4. Sensitive Moderate Invariantism ; Bibliography