Autonomous Knowledge: Radical Enhancement, Autonomy, and the Future of Knowing
Editorial OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Mainland Spain
- Publisher OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
- ISBN13 9780192846921
- ISBN10 0192846922
- Type Book
- Pages 176
- Published 2022
- Language English
- Bookbinding Hard cover
Autonomous Knowledge: Radical Enhancement, Autonomy, and the Future of Knowing
Editorial OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Mainland Spain
Book Details
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 aspecific 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, including (mere) heteronomous but otherwise epistemically impeccablejustified true belief.