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Informationen zum Autor Kelly Becker is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of New Mexico. He is the author of Epistemology Modalized (2007). Tim Black is an Associate Professor and Chair of Philosophy at California State University, Northridge. Klappentext Provides new thinking on the compelling subject of 'sensitivity' - a principle typically characterized as a necessary condition for knowledge. Zusammenfassung This volume provides new thinking on the compelling subject of 'sensitivity' - a principle typically characterized as a necessary condition for knowledge. The book discusses the past! present and future of this celebrated and criticized approach to knowledge. Useful for professionals! graduate students and advanced undergraduate students of epistemology. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; 1. The resilience of sensitivity Kelly Becker and Tim Black; Part I. Defenses, Applications, Explications: 2. Nozick's defense of closure Peter Baumann; 3. Sensitivity meets explanation: an improved counterfactual condition on knowledge Peter Murphy and Tim Black; 4. Sensitivity from others Sanford Goldberg; 5. Knowledge, cognitive dispositions and conditionals Lars Bo Gundersen; 6. Methods and how to individuate them Kelly Becker; Part II. Criticism: 7. Truth-tracking and the value of knowledge Jonathan Kvanvig; 8. The enduring trouble with tracking Jonathan Vogel; 9. What makes knowledge the most highly prized form of true belief? Peter Klein; Part III. In Favor of Safety over Sensitivity: 10. In defence of modest anti-luck epistemology Duncan Pritchard; 11. Better safe than sensitive John Greco; 12. False negatives Steven Luper; Part IV. Sensitivity without Subjunctives: 13. Roush on knowledge: tracking redux Anthony Brueckner; 14. Sensitivity and closure Sherrilyn Roush.
