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Chapter 5 - Knowledge, cognitive dispositions and conditionals

from Part I - Defenses, applications, explications

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 September 2012

Kelly Becker
Affiliation:
University of New Mexico
Tim Black
Affiliation:
California State University, Northridge
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This chapter first presents the two tracking conditionals familiar from Nozick's celebrated tracking theory of knowledge. It then describes the conditional account of dispositions, shows how instances of masking, mimicking and finkishness challenge this account and proposes a solution that directly meets these challenges. The chapter shows how this proposal may also provide the means to deal with classic counterexamples to the tracking theory which can be seen as special instances of masked, mimicked and finkish dispositions obtaining within the cognitive sphere. The chapter also presents semantic principle with which any counterexamples to CA must comply. It is an undeniable fact that dispositional properties are somehow linked with subjunctive conditionals. The metaphysical principle asserts that objects do not necessarily share dispositional properties with all their parts. Finally, the chapter demonstrates how research findings from the ongoing debates about dispositions naturally find application within modal epistemology.
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2012

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