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Campbell, Lucy (2018) An epistemology for practical knowledge. Canadian Journal of Philosophy, 48 (2). pp. 159-177. doi:10.1080/00455091.2017.1341073
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00455091.2017.1341073
Abstract
Anscombe thought that practical knowledge – a person’s knowledge of what she is intentionally doing – displays formal differences to ordinary empirical, or ‘speculative’, knowledge. I suggest these differences rest on the fact that practical knowledge involves intention analogously to how speculative knowledge involves belief. But this claim conflicts with the standard conception of knowledge, according to which knowledge is an inherently belief-involving phenomenon. Building on John Hyman’s account of knowledge as the ability to use a fact as a reason, I develop an alternative, two-tier, epistemology which allows that knowledge might really come in a belief-involving and an intention-involving form.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Philosophy | ||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Canadian Journal of Philosophy | ||||||||
| Publisher: | Routledge | ||||||||
| ISSN: | 0045-5091 | ||||||||
| Official Date: | 2018 | ||||||||
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| Volume: | 48 | ||||||||
| Number: | 2 | ||||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 159-177 | ||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1080/00455091.2017.1341073 | ||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access |
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