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Knowledge as a universal license to act.

Putz, John M.

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Knowledge as a universal license to act.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Knowledge as a universal license to act./
Author:	Putz, John M.
Description:	162 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 73-11(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International73-11A(E).
Subject:	Epistemology. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3516328
ISBN:	9781267454928

Knowledge as a universal license to act.
Putz, John M.

Knowledge as a universal license to act. - 162 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 73-11(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Saint Louis University, 2012.

This item is not available from ProQuest Dissertations & Theses.

Humans have a power of free choice. This power can be used to perform harmful, harmless, or beneficial actions. Since we don't desire to suffer harm, it is in our interest to discourage others from performing harmful voluntary actions and to encourage them to perform beneficial actions. Our practice of moral evaluation serves this interest. By blaming and praising individuals for their actions, we discourage harmful actions and encourage beneficial ones.

ISBN: 9781267454928Subjects--Topical Terms:

896969
Epistemology.

Knowledge as a universal license to act.
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520 $a Humans have a power of free choice. This power can be used to perform harmful, harmless, or beneficial actions. Since we don't desire to suffer harm, it is in our interest to discourage others from performing harmful voluntary actions and to encourage them to perform beneficial actions. Our practice of moral evaluation serves this interest. By blaming and praising individuals for their actions, we discourage harmful actions and encourage beneficial ones.
520 $a But one way that humans can perform harmful actions is by acting on false beliefs. As a result, in order for us to effectively engage in the practice of moral evaluation, we need a way of evaluating whether people are acting on the right sort of beliefs. That is to say, our practice of moral evaluation calls for a separate practice that evaluates whether a subject's beliefs are well enough supported to render it permissible for a subject to act on her beliefs. In Part One of this dissertation, I show that our practice of epistemic evaluation meets this need and that our practice of labeling a belief `knowledge' is our way of marking beliefs as universally actionable. In other words, I argue that knowledge is a universal license to act.
520 $a In Part Two of this dissertation, I showcase the explanatory power of treating knowledge as a universal license to act. I do this by examining questions related to the topic of epistemic closure. In particular, in chapter four, I show how treating knowledge as a universal license to act gives us the resources to explain why knowledge is closed under competent deduction. And in chapters five and six, I show how this account of knowledge gives us the ability to offer satisfying responses to two kinds of challenges to closure, namely, (i) the challenge that stems from the lottery problem and (ii) the skeptical challenge to closure.
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