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| Title: | Essays on the nature and roles of knowledge | ||||||
| Author: | Hughes, Nicholas |
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0000 0004 6500 8564
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| Awarding Body: | University of St Andrews | ||||||
| Current Institution: | University of St Andrews | ||||||
| Date of Award: | 2015 | ||||||
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This dissertation is comprised of five independent essays on the theme of the nature and roles of knowledge. The essays are intended to be free-standing pieces of work and should be read as such. Contents: 1. An Existential Argument For Pragmatic Encroachment -- 2. Environmental Luck Gettier Cases And The Metaphysical Roles Of Knowledge -- 3. Might The Simulation Heuristic Influence Knowledge Attributions? -- 4. Excuses And Epistemic Norms -- 5. From Moore's 'Paradox to the Knowledge Norm of Belief and Beyond'.
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| Supervisor: | McGrath, Matthew ; Gjelsvik, Olav ; Cappelen, Herman ; Brown, Jessica Anne | Sponsor: | Not available | ||||
| Qualification Name: | Thesis (Ph.D.) | Qualification Level: | Doctoral | ||||
| EThOS ID: | uk.bl.ethos.736815 | DOI: | Not available | ||||
| Keywords: | BD161.H85 ; Theory of Knowledge | ||||||
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