Kipper, Jens ORCID: 0000-0002-8138-0855 (2016). Safety, Closure, and the Flow of Information. Erkenntnis, 81 (5). S. 1109 - 1127. DORDRECHT: SPRINGER. ISSN 1572-8420
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In his earlier writings, Fred Dretske proposed an anti-skeptical strategy that is based on a rejection of the view that knowledge is closed under known entailment. This strategy is seemingly congenial with a sensitivity condition for knowledge, which is often associated with Dretske's epistemology. However, it is not obvious how Dretske's early account meshes with the information-theoretic view developed in Knowledge and the Flow of Information. One aim of this paper is to elucidate the connections between these accounts. First I argue that, contrary to an objection raised by Christoph Jager, the information-theoretic account is compatible with Dretske's anti-skeptical strategy based on the rejection of closure. This strategy invokes the notion of channel conditions, which are roughly speaking those conditions that are necessary and jointly sufficient for a signal to carry information. I propose an interpretation of the account that is based on the idea that a signal's carrying information requires that the channel conditions are stable. It is shown that the resulting account incorporates both a sensitivity condition and a safety condition for knowledge. Finally, I demonstrate how this proposal allows for knowledge of modally robust propositions without making its acquisition too easy, as simple safety accounts do. I end with a suggestion concerning the direction that future research should take, based on the fact that in its present form the information-theoretic account does not capture inferential knowledge.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-260872 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1007/s10670-015-9787-1 | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Erkenntnis | ||||||||
Volume: | 81 | ||||||||
Number: | 5 | ||||||||
Page Range: | S. 1109 - 1127 | ||||||||
Date: | 2016 | ||||||||
Publisher: | SPRINGER | ||||||||
Place of Publication: | DORDRECHT | ||||||||
ISSN: | 1572-8420 | ||||||||
Language: | English | ||||||||
Faculty: | Unspecified | ||||||||
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Refereed: | Yes | ||||||||
URI: | http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/26087 |
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