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- Title
Knowledge, Cognitive Achievement, and Environmental Luck.
- Authors
Jarvis, Benjamin
- Abstract
This article defends the view that knowledge is type-identical to cognitive achievement. I argue, pace Duncan Pritchard, that not only knowledge, but also cognitive achievement is incompatible with environmental luck. I show that the performance of cognitive abilities in environmental luck cases does not distinguish them from non-abilities per se. For this reason, although the cognitive abilities of the subject are exercised in environmental luck cases, they are not manifested in any relevant sense. I conclude by showing that this explanation is not ad hoc as it can be generalized to apply to causal features besides cognitive abilities.
- Subjects
THEORY of knowledge; FORTUNE; COGNITIVE ability; PERFORMATIVE (Philosophy); PRITCHARD, Duncan; PHILOSOPHICAL research
- Publication
Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, 2013, Vol 94, Issue 4, p529
- ISSN
0279-0750
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/papq.12012