Shifty talk: knowledge and causation

• Published in: Philosophical studies Vol. 167; no. 2; pp. 183 - 199
• Main Author: Brown, Jessica
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht Springer 01.01.2014; Springer Netherlands; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Anti intellectualism; Ascriptions; Barns; Causality; Causation; Contextualism; Contrafactuals; Education; Epistemology; Ethics; Knowledge; Metaphysics; Philosophy; Philosophy of Language; Philosophy of Mind; Politeness; Pragmatics; Rationalism; Tomatoes; Invariantism; Knowledge; Causation; Contextualism; Anti-intellectualism

In this paper, I criticise one main strategy for supporting anti-intellectualism, the view that whether a subject knows may depend on the stakes. This strategy appeals to difficulties with developing contextualist and pragmatic treatments of the shiftiness of our talk about knowledge to motivate ant...