Bernecker, Sven (2020). Against global method safety. Synthese, 197 (12). S. 5101 - 5117. DORDRECHT: SPRINGER. ISSN 1573-0964
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The global method safety account of knowledge states that an agent's true belief that p is safe and qualifies as knowledge if and only if it is formed by method M, such that her beliefs in p and her beliefs in relevantly similar propositions formed by M in all nearby worlds are true. This paper argues that global method safety is too restrictive. First, the agent may not know relevantly similar propositions via M because the belief that p is the only possible outcome of M. Second, there are cases where there is a fine-grained belief that is unsafe and a relevantly similar coarse-grained belief (with looser truth conditions) that is safe and where both beliefs are based on the same method M. Third, the reliability of conditional reasoning, a basic belief-forming method, seems to be sensitive to fine-grained contents, as suggested by the wide variation in success rates for thematic versions of the Wason selection task.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-310182 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1007/s11229-018-02008-5 | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Synthese | ||||||||
Volume: | 197 | ||||||||
Number: | 12 | ||||||||
Page Range: | S. 5101 - 5117 | ||||||||
Date: | 2020 | ||||||||
Publisher: | SPRINGER | ||||||||
Place of Publication: | DORDRECHT | ||||||||
ISSN: | 1573-0964 | ||||||||
Language: | English | ||||||||
Faculty: | Unspecified | ||||||||
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Subjects: | no entry | ||||||||
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URI: | http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/31018 |
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