Standard philosophical explanations of the concept of knowledge invoke a personal goal of having true beliefs, and explain the other requirements for knowledge as indicating the best way to achieve that goal. In this highly original book, Steven L. Reynolds argues instead that the concept of knowledge functions to express a naturally developing kind of social control, a complex social norm, and that the main purpose of our practice of saying and thinking that people 'know' is to improve our system for exchanging information, which is testimony. He makes illuminating comparisons of the...
Standard philosophical explanations of the concept of knowledge invoke a personal goal of having true beliefs, and explain the other requirements for ...
This book argues that the main purpose of saying people 'know' is to improve our system for exchanging information, and that comparisons with social norms can explain puzzling features of our philosophical concept of knowledge. The volume will appeal to epistemologists and to those interested in sociology and psychology.
This book argues that the main purpose of saying people 'know' is to improve our system for exchanging information, and that comparisons with social n...
