Tracking Truth Knowledge, Evidence, and Science

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ISBN: 9780199274734 | 0199274738
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 1/12/2006

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"Tracking Truth presents a unified treatment of knowledge, evidence, and epistemo logical realism and anti-realism about scientific theories. A wide range of knowledge-related phenomena, especially but not only a science, strongly favor the idea of tracking as the key to what makes something knowledge."--BOOK JACKET.

1. Tracking: At Home on the Range

(37)

Knowledge is power, and other intriguing banalities

(5)

Animals

(4)

Science

(7)

Testimony

(5)

Justification, knowledge, and the maintenance of true belief

(5)

Overview of chapters

(8)

Appendix 1.1. Knowledge without justification

(3)

2. Tracking with Closure

(37)

1. Recursive tracking

(10)

2. Immediate implications

(6)

3. Tracking not too strong

(18)

Oscar and Dack

(2)

Not falsely believing

(3)

Disjunction

(1)

Ice cubes, rookies, hit rock, and missed rock

(5)

Jesse James and method

(3)

Sensitivity training

(1)

Deities of questionable benevolence

(3)

3. Tracking: More and Better

(42)

1. Tracking not too weak

(38)

Rules of application—the tracking conditions

(17)

Newspaper

(3)

Gumshoe and Tagalong

(2)

Judy and Trudy

(2)

Barns and fakery

100

(2)

Dumb luck and blind luck

102

(5)

Compulsive Mr Nogot

107

(3)

Conjunctions

110

(2)

Causal overdetermination

112

(1)

2. Knowledge of the future

113

(4)

4. Tracking over the Rivals

117

(32)

Sensitivity and safety: higher-level knowledge

118

(3)

Sensitivity and safety: direction of fit

121

(2)

Sensitivity and safety: no trade-off

123

(3)

Why knowledge brings power

126

(2)

Relevant alternatives theories and 'lottery' propositions

128

(6)

Knowledge of logical and other necessary truths

134

(14)

Appendix 4.1 Sensitivity and safety

148

(1)

5. What is Evidence? Discrimination, Indication, and Leverage

149

(40)

Knowledge and evidence

149

(5)

Desiderata for a concept of evidence

154

(6)

The discrimination condition on evidence

160

(5)

The indication condition on evidence

165

(13)

Only probability

178

(5)

Conclusion

183

(4)

Appendix 5.1 The Likelihood Ratio, high P(e), and high P(h/e)

187

(2)

6. Real Anti-realism: The Evidential Approach

189

(34)

Introduction

189

(5)

Lambs and sheep

194

(3)

Empty strutting?

197

(12)

Natural defenses

209

(5)

From EP to ept: dream on

214

(9)

Conclusion

223

(2)

References

225

(6)

Index

231

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Tracking Truth Knowledge, Evidence, and Science

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