Jason Stanley, Knowledge and Practical Interests

Practical Interests, Relevant Alternatives, and Knowledge Attributions: an Empirical Study

In defending his interest-relative account of knowledge, Jason Stanley relies heavily on intuitions about several bank cases. We experimentally test the empirical claims that Stanley seems to make concerning our common-sense intuitions about these cases. Additionally, we test the empirical claims that Jonathan Schaffer seems to make, regarding the salience of an alternative, in his critique of ...

Knowledge, Objects and Interests

Habermas’s theory of knowledge-constitutive interests (initially outlined in the Introduction) is intended to challenge what he regards as the ‘false objectivism’ of positivism’s conception of science and the relationship between theory and practice. This objectivism has two related elements. First, there is the belief that the objects of scientific knowledge exist independently of the epistemo...

Nominal Restriction Jason Stanley Forthcoming in Logical Form and Language, edited by Peters and Preyer

Practical and Efficient Internet Routing with Competing Interests

Practical and Efficient Internet Routing with Competing Interests

Practical Knowledge and Abilities

The thesis is an exploration of the relations between know-how, abilities, and ordinary knowledge of facts. It is shown that there is a distinctively practical sort of know-how and a corresponding interpretation of 'S knows how to 0', and that this special sort of know-how, while possessing representational content, is not simply ordinary knowledge-that. The view rests on a novel distinction be...