Indicative Conditionals and Epistemic Luminosity

被引:1
作者
Hewson, Matthew [1 ]
Kirkpatrick, James Ravi [2 ]
机构
[1] Univ Oxford, Merton Coll, Oxford, England
[2] Univ Oxford, Somerville Coll, Oxford, England
关键词
ASSERTION; KK; CONTEXT;
D O I
10.1093/mind/fzab064
中图分类号
B [哲学、宗教];
学科分类号
01 ; 0101 ;
摘要
Kevin Dorst has recently pointed out an apparently puzzling consequence of denying epistemic luminosity: given some natural-sounding bridging principles between knowledge, credence, and indicative conditionals, the denial of epistemic luminosity licenses the knowledge and assertability of abominable-sounding conditionals of the form (sic)If I don't know that phi, then phi(sic). We provide a general and systematic examination of this datum by testing Dorst's claim against various semantics for the indicative conditional in the setting of epistemic logic. Our conclusion is that, regardless of whether knowledge is luminous, the knowability of these conditionals is highly sensitive to the correct semantic analysis of the indicative conditional. Moreover, standard pragmatic resources can explain away the infelicity of such assertions. As it stands, the datum does not tell against epistemic non-luminosity.
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页码:231 / 258
页数:28
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