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Autonomous Knowledge : Radical Enhancement, Autonomy, and the Future of Knowing by J. Adam Carter is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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"A central conclusion developed and defended throughout the book is that epistemic autonomy is necessary for knowledge (both knowledge-that and knowledge-how) and in ways that epistemologists have not yet fully appreciated. The book is divided into five chapters. Chapter 1 motivates (using a series of twists on Lehrer's TrueTemp case) the claim that propositional knowledge requires autonomous belief. Chapters 2 and 3 flesh out this proposal in two ways, by defending a specific form of history-sensitive externalism with respect to propositional knowledge-apt autonomous belief (Chapter 2) and by showing how the idea that knowledge requires autonomous belief--understood along the externalist lines proposed--corresponds with an entirely new class of knowledge defeaters (Chapter 3). Chapter 4 extends the proposal to (both intellectualist and anti-intellectualist) knowledge-how and performance enhancement, and in a way that combines insights from virtue epistemology with research on freedom, responsibility, and manipulation. Chapter 5 concludes with a new twist on the Value of Knowledge debate, by vindicating the value of epistemically autonomous knowledge over that which falls short, in
Who reads Autonomous Knowledge : Radical Enhancement, Autonomy, and the Future of Knowing?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- J. Adam Carter
- Publisher
- IRL Press at Oxford University Press
- Published
- 2022
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780192846921
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Philosophy, Humanities