October 24, 2004

Central APA Paper

My paper "The Practical Importance of Knowledge (Such As It Is)" has just been accepted for the Central APA in Chicago. It deals with some of the issues that Jon Kvanvig is raising in this post. My abstract:

In Knowledge and Lotteries, Hawthorne argues for a view on which whether a speaker knows that p depends on whether her practical environment makes it appropriate for her to use p in practical reasoning. It may seem that this view yields a straightforward account of why knowledge is important, based on the role of knowledge in practical reasoning. I argue that this is not so; practical reasoning does not motivate us to care about knowledge in itself. At best, practical reasoning motivates us to care about several other concepts in themselves, and ascriptions of knowledge provide economical summaries of these independently important desiderata.
Posted by Matt Weiner at October 24, 2004 11:37 AM
Comments

Congratulations, Matt!

Posted by: Jeff at October 25, 2004 09:28 AM