The Nature and Value of Knowledge

Duncan Pritchard is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh. His work is mainly in the area of epistemology, in which he has published widely. His books include Epistemic Luck (Oxford University Press, 2005), What is this Thing Called Knowledge? (Routledge, 2006), and Knowledge (Palgrave, 2009).Alan Millar has taught philosophy for many years, and is now a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Stirling. He is the author of Reasons and Experience (Oxford University Press, 1991), Understanding People: Normativity and Rationalizing Explanation (Oxford University Press, 2004), and articles mainly in the philosophy of mind and the theory of knowledge.Adrian Haddock is a Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Stirling. He has published essays on action, knowledge, and idealism.

• PART I: KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING ; 1. The Value Problem for Knowledge ; 2. Knowledge and Final Value ; 3. Anti-Luck Virtue Epistemology ; 4. Understanding ; PART II: KNOWLEDGE AND RECOGNITION ; 5. Knowledge in Recent Epistemology: Some Problems ; 6. Perceptual Knowledge and Recognitional Abilities ; 7. Knowledge from Indicators ; 8. The Social Transmission of Knowledge ; PART III: KNOWLEDGE AND ACTION ; 9. Knowledge and Justification ; 10. Second-Order Knowledge ; 11. Knowledge of Action ; Bibliography

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