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KnowledgeBrian Weatherson

Knowledge

2024286 pages
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"In this book the author argues for a groundbreaking perspective that knowledge is inherently interest-relative. This means that what one knows is influenced not just by belief, evidence, and truth, but crucially by the purposes those beliefs serve. Drawing from classical Nyāya epistemologies, the book asserts that knowledge rationalizes action: if you know something, it is sensible to act on it-and the best way to square this with an anti-sceptical epistemology is to say that knowledge is interest-relative. While versions of this view have been debated, they haven't gained wide acceptance.…

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  • Other · English · 2024
    Open Book Publishers · 286 pages · 9781805113973
PhilosophyInquiry (Theory of knowledge)Interest (Philosophy)Theory of Knowledge