What's the point of knowledge?: a function-first epistemology
- Submitting institution
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University of Nottingham, The
- Unit of assessment
- 30 - Philosophy
- Output identifier
- 2410350
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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10.1093/oso/9780190914721.001.0001
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press (OUP)
- ISBN
- 9780190914721
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- February
- Year of publication
- 2019
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This 120,000-word monograph is the product of five years’ research on what knowledge is and on knowledge’s value. It draws on this to propose a new theory of knowledge, ‘function-first epistemology’ and to argue that this approach to the study of knowledge makes progress on central epistemological puzzles, including the Gettier problem, epistemic relativism, and philosophical skepticism. Chapters 3–8 each present new research on an independent philosophical issue that involved comparable research effort to a stand-alone journal article. Chapters 1 and 8 contain material then developed further in ‘Skepticism: Impractical, Therefore Implausible’, also submitted: see Research Information box.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- Chapters 1 and 8 present ideas that were developed more fully and combined with new material in sections 4–6 of ‘Skepticism: Impractical, Therefore Implausible’, also submitted here. (i) Section 4 of the article includes a few lightly paraphrased sentences from Chapter 1 of the book (pp. 26-27) and Chapter 8 (p. 192). (This amounts to no more than 5% of the entire article.) (ii) Sections 5 and 6 of the article expand on ideas from Chapter 8 of the book, but draw on newly-researched material to do so.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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