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| Gaṅgeśa on Epistemic Luck | ||
| 作者 | Das, Nilanjan (著) |
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| 出處題名 | Journal of Indian Philosophy |
| 卷期 | v.49 n.2 |
| 出版日期 | 2021.04 |
| 頁次 | 153 - 202 |
| 出版者 | Springer |
| 出版者網址 | http://www.springer.com/gp/ |
| 出版地 | Berlin, Germany [柏林, 德國] |
| 資料類型 | 期刊論文=Journal Article |
| 使用語言 | 英文=English |
| 附註項 | Correction to: Gaṅgeśa on Epistemic Luck https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10781-021-09468-z |
| 關鍵詞 | Gan˙ges´a Upa¯dhya¯ya; Pramā; Knowledge; Infallibilism; Epistemic luck; Nya¯ya |
| 摘要 | This essay explores a problem for Nyāya epistemologists. It concerns the notion of pramā. Roughly speaking, a pramā is a conscious mental event of knowledge-acquisition, i.e., a conscious experience or thought in undergoing which an agent learns or comes to know something. Call any event of this sort a knowledge-event. The problem is this. On the one hand, many Naiyāyikas accept what I will call the Nyāya Definition of Knowledge, the view that a conscious experience or thought is a knowledge-event just in case it is true and non-recollective. On the other hand, they are also committed to what I shall call Nyāya Infallibilism, the thesis that every knowledge-event is produced by causes that couldn’t have given rise to an error. These two commitments seem to conflict with each other in cases of epistemic luck, i.e., cases where an agent arrives a true judgement accidentally or as a matter of luck. While the Nyāya Definition of Knowledge seems to predict that these judgements are knowledge-events, Nyāya Infallibilism seems to entail that they aren’t. In this essay, I show that Gaṅgeśa Upādhyāya, the 14th century Naiyāyika, solves this problem by adopting what I call epistemic localism, the view that upstream causal factors play no epistemically significant role in the production of knowledge. |
| 目次 | Abstract Introduction Background: Nyāya Infallibilism Gaṅgeśa on Inference and Epistemic Luck Gaṅgeśa on Testimony and Epistemic Luck The Problem of Epistemic Luck Gaṅgeśa’s First Solution: Appealing to Divine Awareness Gaṅgeśa’s Second Solution: Epistemic Localism Jayadeva’s Extension of Localism Conclusion References |
| ISSN | 00221791 (P); 15730395 (E) |
| DOI | 10.1007/s10781-021-09461-6 |
| 點閱次數 | 163 |
| 建檔日期 | 2022.12.30 |
| 更新日期 | 2022.12.30 |
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