Thesis
The fragile state: essays on luminosity, normativity and metaphilosophy
- Abstract:
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This dissertation is a set of three essays connected by the common theme of our epistemic fragility: the way in which our knowledge – of our own minds, of whether we are in violation of the epistemic and ethical norms, and of the philosophical truths themselves – is hostage to forces outside our control. The first essay, “Are We Luminous?”, is a recasting and defence of Timothy Williamson’s argument that there are no non-trivial conditions such that we are in a position to know we are in them...
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+ Hawthorne, J
Division:
HUMS
Department:
Philosophy Faculty
Role:
Supervisor
+ Williamson, T
Division:
HUMS
Department:
Philosophy Faculty
Role:
Supervisor
Bibliographic Details
- Publication date:
- 2013
- Type of award:
- DPhil
- Level of award:
- Doctoral
- Awarding institution:
- Oxford University, UK
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- Language:
- English
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- UUID:
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- Local pid:
- ora:8198
- Deposit date:
- 2014-03-13
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- Copyright holder:
- Srinivasan, A
- Copyright date:
- 2014
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