Knowledge and Lotteries

John Hawthorne

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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.

Book Details

Publisher: OUP Oxford
Publish Date: Jan 19th, 2006
Pages: 216
Language: English
Edition: undefined - undefined
Dimensions: 7.92in - 7.34in - 0.48in - 0.59lb
EAN: 9780199287130
Categories: • Epistemology• Linguistics - General

Praise for this book

"This monograph adds significantly to the growing literature on the skeptical threat posed by lotteries. But it is also an important contribution to epistemology in general, and especially the intersection between epistemology and the philosophy of language. The book is also a good read. It is filled with engaging arguments, for and against various positions, many of which spill over into the footnotes, where they undergo promising developments."--Matthew McGrath, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews