Attributing Knowledge: What It Means to Know Something

by Jody Azzouni

In Attributing Knowledge, Jody Azzouni challenges philosophical conventions about what it means to know something. He argues that the restrictive conditions philosophers place on knowers only hold in special cases; knowledge can be attributed to babies, sophisticated animals (great apes, orcas), unsophisticated animals (bees), and machinery (drones, driverless cars).

Azzouni also gives a fresh defense of fallibilism. Relying on lexical semantics...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0197508812
• ISBN13: 9780197508817
• Release Date: October 2020
• Publisher: Oxford Univ PR
• Length: 482 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.4" x 9.4"