On Saying that Someone Knows: Themes from Craig

TY - CHAP

T1 - On Saying that Someone Knows

T2 - Themes from Craig

AU - Kappel, Klemens

PY - 2011/1/1

Y1 - 2011/1/1

N2 - In his book Knowledge and the State of Nature, Edward Craig proposes a new methodological approach to one of the crucial questions in epistemology, the question what knowledge is, or more precisely the question regarding the nature and the concept of knowledge. The main aim of the chapter is to discuss and to propose a distilled version of Craig's approach. The main issue is how to make sense of questions such as: What is the point of the concept of knowledge? and Why do we attribute knowledge? This chapter characterizes and defends a general way of understanding such questions, and contrasts it to elements of Craig's approach. On the basis of this, the chapter offers some views about what, in Craig's terminology, is the point of the concept of knowledge, and again the chapter contrasts this to some of the claims put forward by Craig. Like Craig, this chapter advocates that understanding the point of the concept of knowledge may yield some insights about knowledge and the concept of knowledge, though space does not permit a discussion of these further questions.

AB - In his book Knowledge and the State of Nature, Edward Craig proposes a new methodological approach to one of the crucial questions in epistemology, the question what knowledge is, or more precisely the question regarding the nature and the concept of knowledge. The main aim of the chapter is to discuss and to propose a distilled version of Craig's approach. The main issue is how to make sense of questions such as: What is the point of the concept of knowledge? and Why do we attribute knowledge? This chapter characterizes and defends a general way of understanding such questions, and contrasts it to elements of Craig's approach. On the basis of this, the chapter offers some views about what, in Craig's terminology, is the point of the concept of knowledge, and again the chapter contrasts this to some of the claims put forward by Craig. Like Craig, this chapter advocates that understanding the point of the concept of knowledge may yield some insights about knowledge and the concept of knowledge, though space does not permit a discussion of these further questions.

KW - Attributions of knowledge

KW - Concept of knowledge

KW - Craig

KW - Methodology of epistemology

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84892980229&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199577477.003.0004

DO - 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199577477.003.0004

M3 - Book chapter

AN - SCOPUS:84892980229

SN - 9780199577477

BT - Social Epistemology

PB - Oxford University Press

ER -