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Tables of Contents for Knowledge and the State of Nature
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Nature and motivation of project. Doubts answered. Plato, Pears, Hobbes, comparison with State-of-Nature Theory in Political Philosophy. Evolutionary epistemology.
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Derivation of first condition; the problem whether belief necessary. Necessary and sufficient conditions an unsuitable format. The prototypical case.
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Need for third condition. Discussion of the Nozick--Dretske analysis.
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Why causal theory, tracking, reliabilism all good approximations. Why justified true belief a good approximation. Comparison with Grice.
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Distinction between Informant and Source of Information; its nature and point. Application to putative `knowledge without belief' cases; and to comparativism: Goldman.
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Being right by accident. All analyses insufficient. Blackburn: the Mirv/Pirv principle.
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Local v. Global Reliabilism. Discussion of McGinn.
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Externalist and Internalist analyses. The first-person case. Knowing that one knows.
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Insufficiency of the various analyses. The `No false lemma' principle. Its rationale---and its effect.
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Objectivisation. The `cart before the horse' objection---and the response.
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Lotteries and multiple premises: the pull towards certainty. Knowledge and natural laws.
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Objectivisation and scepticism. Unger's first account.
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Two explanations of scepticism: the first-person approach, and the absolute perspective.
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Knowledge and involvement. What makes truth valuable?
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Testimony and the transmission of knowledge. Welbourne: believing the speaker.
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Other locutions: Knowing Fred. Information v. acquaintance. Interacting with Fred. Knowing London---and German.
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Other locutions: Knowing how to. The Inquirer and the Apprentice. `Knows how to' compared with `can'---and with `knows that'.
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Appendix Unger's Semantic Relativism
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References
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Index of Names
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