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This book argues that credences can be knowledge. Say you have . credence that a certain coin landed heads, . credence that your friend Jones smokes, and . credence that your friend Brown smokes. I argue that each of these credences can be knowledge, in just the same way that your full beliefs can be knowledge. Traditional epistemology has focused on the epistemic status of full beliefs in propositions, such as the proposition that you are not dreaming, or that God exists, or that you have hands. But in addition to having knowledge of black and white propositions, we have knowledge that comes in every shade of grey. This book is about credences, but not just about credences. More generally, it is about probabilistic beliefs. For instance, I argue that you can know that it might be raining outside,where this epistemicmodal belief cannot be reduced to full belief in any proposition. Similarly, your conditional beliefs and conditional credences can be probabilistic knowledge.Also, this book is about knowledge, but not just about knowledge—it is alsoabout belief andassertion.There is something common to credences, epistemic modal beliefs, conditional beliefs, conditional credences,

Who reads Probabilistic knowledge?

Author

Moss, Sarah

Publisher

Oxford University Press; Oxford University Press, USA

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9780191861260

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Philosophy, Mathematics, Humanities