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
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Putting Knowledge to Work |
Editors | Arturs Logins, Jacques-Henri Vollet |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, Oxford |
Pages | 201-218 |
Number of pages | 18 |
ISBN (electronic) | 9780192882417 |
ISBN (print) | 9780192882370 |
Publication status | Published - 8 Aug 2024 |
Peer-reviewed | Yes |
External IDs
Scopus | 85206221490 |
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ORCID | /0000-0002-9962-2074/work/173987741 |
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Keywords
- Function, Edward Craig, Assertion, Norm, Inquiry, Knowledge, Decision