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Document Type: | Book |
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All Authors / Contributors: |
Sarah Moss |
ISBN: | 9780198858096 0198858094 9780198792154 0198792158 |
OCLC Number: | 1150812080 |
Awards: | Winner of Winner of the APA 2020 Sanders Book Prize. |
Description: | xi, 268 Seiten ; 24 cm |
Contents: | 1: The case for probabilistic contents2: The case for probabilistic assertion3: Epistemic modals and probability operators4: Indicative conditionals5: The case for probabilistic knowledge6: Factivity7: Skepticism8: Knowledge and belief9: Knowledge and action10: Knowledge and personsAppendix: A formal semantics for epistemic vocabulary |
Responsibility: | Sarah Moss. |
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Essential reading for philosophers of language, semanticists, and formal epistemologists. . . . Probabilistic Knowledge offers a persuasive case for a radical revision of some foundational ideas about the nature of content and communication. . . . rich and rewarding. * Daniel Greco, Journal of Philosophy * The title concept of this book, probabilistic knowledge, involves a radical revision of some central ideas of epistemology. But it ends up providing a more unified account of many phenomena of recent interest. Philosophers with an interest in the formal semantics of conditionals or epistemic modals, and epistemologists working on contextualism or the interaction of credence and belief, should probably read most or all of this book. And many other philosophers shouldalso find a copy. * Kenny Easwaran, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews * Read more...

