Knowledge and conviction
Abstract
We do not merely believe or disbelieve propositions; rather we believe or disbelieve them to various degrees of strength. This fact, unassuming as it seems, has been neglected in contemporary philosophical analyses of knowledge and epistemic justification. I argue that no account of knowledge is complete until it takes into account the strength with which one must believe in order to know, and I then show that once we do take it into account it sheds light on the link between knowledge and assertion, on the apparent contextual relativity of judgments about knowledge, and on the conditions under which knowledge is closed under known entailment.
Degree
Ph.D.
Advisors
Bergmann, Purdue University.
Subject Area
Epistemology|Philosophy
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