The Point of Knowledge … is to Make Good Decisions!

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Abstract

Over the last decade or so, there has been a renewed interest in Edward Craig's question why creatures like us in a world like ours have the concept of knowledge. What purpose does it serve? Craig famously proposed that the point of knowledge is to flag good informants. This proposal competes with more recent accounts according to which (a) knowledge marks the end of inquiry or (b) normally signals a threshold for "actionable" information. A common feature of all these accounts is that they relate knowledge in some way or other to decision-making. What if one were to put the link to decisions first? What if one assumed that the point of knowledge is to make good decisions?.

Details

OriginalspracheEnglisch
TitelPutting Knowledge to Work
Redakteure/-innenArturs Logins, Jacques-Henri Vollet
Herausgeber (Verlag)Oxford University Press, Oxford
Seiten201-218
Seitenumfang18
ISBN (elektronisch)9780192882417
ISBN (Print)9780192882370
PublikationsstatusVeröffentlicht - 8 Aug. 2024
Peer-Review-StatusJa

Externe IDs

Scopus 85206221490
ORCID /0000-0002-9962-2074/work/173987741

Schlagworte

DFG-Fachsystematik nach Fachkollegium

Schlagwörter

  • Function, Edward Craig, Assertion, Norm, Inquiry, Knowledge, Decision