The Theory of Questions, Epistemic Powers, and the Indexical Theory of Knowledge

Castañeda, Héctor-Neri

doi:10.1111/j.1475-4975.1980.tb00405.x

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“…It will be useful at this point to consider how a puzzle concerning the scope of 'abnormal' circumstances affected an earlier attempt by Castañeda (1980Castañeda ( , 1989 to analyze 11 Perhaps it is no accident that one of Greco's descriptions of the sheep example includes the detail that "due to an unusual trick of light S has mistaken a dog for a sheep…" (2002, p. 308). This does inject a statistical abnormality concerning lighting conditions at the field.…”

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Abnormality, cognitive virtues, and knowledge

Shope¹

2008

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Causal analyses of one's knowing that p have recently emphasized the involvement of cognitive virtues in coming to believe that p. John Greco suggests that in order to deal with Gettier-type cases, a virtue analysis of knowing should include a requirement that one's knowing does not in a certain way involve abnormality. Yet Greco's emphasis on statistical abnormality either renders his analysis subject to a generality problem or to objections regarding certain Gettier-type cases. When we instead consider abnormality in the sense of a causally differentiating factor in relation to a causal contrast situation, the account remains unclear concerning its application to an interesting non-Gettier-type case concerning chance. The exploration of these shortcomings casts doubt on the epistemological usefulness of the schema, 'If you know, then there is no abnormality in your being right.'

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Section: Castañeda On Abnormalitymentioning

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Abnormality, cognitive virtues, and knowledge

Shope¹

2008

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“…What is valuable about knowledge seems connected to the power that knowledge provides for answering our questions (Castan˜eda, 1980;Hookway, 1996). That's what knowledge buys.…”

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The Irrelevance of the Subject: Against Subject-sensitive Invariantism

Schaffer

2006

Philos Stud

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“…14 Castañeda is not telling us that there is no knowledge beyond minimal realism. For in his view knowledge is relative to an "epistemic context" and thus there are different species of knowledge, depending on the context (Castañeda 1980b). The contexts differ in the presuppositions that are taken for granted and in the "abnormalities" that are tacitly ruled out.…”

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Metaphysical Realism and Castañeda’s Minimal Transcendental Realism

Orilia¹

2014

Defending Realism

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We can learn more about metaphysical realism and about how it can best be supported by looking at Castañeda's excursions into metaphysics in part II of his Self-profile (1984) and in his 1988 paper, "Metaphysical Internalism, Selves and the Indivisible Noumenon." In particular we can reach the following conclusions. Metaphysical realism is somehow delivered by the Cartesian Cogito, which certifies with metaphysical certainty that there are objects, properties, relations and states of affairs. In contrast to what Castañeda claims, this makes it difficult to say that reality in itself must be conceived of simply as an "ineffable undifferentiated whole." And it also opens the way, abductively, for common sense and scientific realism. But, following Castañeda, we must admit that we have different levels of knowledge and certainty and that this abductive knowledge does not grant absolute metaphysical certainty for the deliverances of common sense and scientific realism.

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The Theory of Questions, Epistemic Powers, and the Indexical Theory of Knowledge

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Cited by 13 publications

References 43 publications

Abnormality, cognitive virtues, and knowledge

Abnormality, cognitive virtues, and knowledge

The Irrelevance of the Subject: Against Subject-sensitive Invariantism

Metaphysical Realism and Castañeda’s Minimal Transcendental Realism

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