NDLI: Do bad people know more? Interactions between attributions of knowledge and blame

Content Provider	Springer Nature Link
Author	Beebe, James R.
Copyright Year	2015
Abstract	A central topic in experimental epistemology has been the ways that non-epistemic evaluations of an agent’s actions can affect whether the agent is taken to have certain kinds of knowledge. Several scholars (e.g., Beebe and Buckwalter Mind Lang 25:474–98; 2010; Beebe and Jensen Philosophical Psychology 25:689–715, 2012; Schaffer and Knobe Noûs 46:675–708, 2012; Beebe and Shea Episteme 10:219–40, 2013; Buckwalter Philosophical Psychology 27:368–83, 2014; Turri Ergo 1:101–127, 2014) have found that the positive or negative valence of an action can influence attributions of knowledge to the agent. These evaluative effects on knowledge attributions are commonly seen as performance errors, failing to reflect individuals’ genuine conceptual competence with knows. In the present article, I report the results of a series of studies designed to test the leading version of this view, which appeals to the allegedly distorting influence of individuals’ motivation to blame. I argue that the data pose significant challenges to such a view.
Starting Page	2633
Ending Page	2657
Page Count	25
File Format	PDF
ISSN	00397857
Journal	Synthese
Volume Number	193
Issue Number	8
e-ISSN	15730964
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Netherlands
Publisher Date	2015-09-04
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Experimental epistemology Folk epistemology Knowledge Blame Knobe effect Epistemic side-effect effect Philosophy of Science Epistemology Logic Philosophy of Language Metaphysics
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Philosophy Social Sciences

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