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Zusatztext In this beautifully written book, Duncan Pritchard provides a distinctive defence of a neo-Moorean safety response to scepticism. At the heart of the book is a sensitive and subtle discussion of the intuition that knowledge excludes luck. He distinguishes two central kinds of luck which are epistemically relevant and uses them to provide an insightful critique of contemporary virtue epistemology... Pritchard's admirably clear prose will provide students with an overview of debates at the heart of contemporary epistemology while also making a substantial contribution to those debates. Epistemic Luck will surely be widely read and influential. Klappentext Epistemic Luck is the first book to offer a rigorous philosophical examination of the concept of luck and its relationship to knowledge. In particular, Duncan Pritchard shows how a more nuanced understanding of the relationship between knowledge and luck can enable us to see our way past some of the most intractable disputes in the contemporary theory of knowledge. Anyone working on epistemology will need to come to terms with his original and incisive contribution to the field. Zusammenfassung Offers a philosophical examination of the concept of luck and its relationship to knowledge. This work shows how an understanding of the relationship between knowledge and luck can enable us to see our way past some of the most intractable disputes in the contemporary theory of knowledge. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction I. Scepticism 1: Scepticism in contemporary debate 2: Closure and context 3: Neo-Mooreanism 4: The source of scepticism II. Epistemic luck 5: Luck 6: Two varieties of epistemic luck 7: Cognitive responsibility and the epistemic virtues 8: Scepticism and epistemic luck 9: Epistemic angst Postscript: Moral luck
