Knowing and Checking: An Epistemological Investigation

ISBN-13: 9781032178172 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 288 str.

Guido Melchior

Opis

This is the first book to develop a comprehensive epistemic theory of checking. The author argues that sensitivity is necessary for checking but not for knowing, thereby finding a new home for the much discussed modal sensitivity principle. He then uses the distinction between checking and knowing to explain central puzzles about knowledge.

Recenzje

"Knowing and Checking explores several important issues, providing an account of checking, charting the connections between checking and knowing, and further investigating the role of sensitivity within epistemology."
-Robert Weston Siscoe, Acta Analytica

O autorze

Guido Melchior is Privatdozent and project leader at the University of Graz and recurring visiting scholar at the University of Arizona. He has previously published in Philosophical Studies, Erkenntnis, and Episteme among other journals.