Knowledge and Lotteries

by John Hawthorne and John Hawthorne

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199287139
• ISBN13: 9780199287130
• Release Date: January 2006
• Publisher: OUP Oxford
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.3" x 7.9"