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In this chapter insensitivity accounts, on which various puzzling appearances of ignorance are explained by appeal to the fact that the beliefs in question would have been held even if they had been false, are defended from counterexamples. In some cases, the defense is accomplished by means of modifications to the notion of insensitivity, where the resulting more sophisticated understanding is able to handle the examples. In other cases, it is argued that the insensitivity account is a viable explanation of the phenomena it is designed to explain, despite the presence of counterexamples to it. Direct insensitivity accounts, on which a sensitivity condition for knowledge is posited, are distinguished from indirect insensitivity accounts, like the one employed in Chapters 1 and 5, on which our tendency to deny knowledge in cases of insensitive beliefs has a different basis.
Title: Insensitivity
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In this chapter insensitivity accounts, on which various puzzling appearances of ignorance are explained by appeal to the fact that the beliefs in question would have been held even if they had been false, are defended from counterexamples.
In some cases, the defense is accomplished by means of modifications to the notion of insensitivity, where the resulting more sophisticated understanding is able to handle the examples.
In other cases, it is argued that the insensitivity account is a viable explanation of the phenomena it is designed to explain, despite the presence of counterexamples to it.
Direct insensitivity accounts, on which a sensitivity condition for knowledge is posited, are distinguished from indirect insensitivity accounts, like the one employed in Chapters 1 and 5, on which our tendency to deny knowledge in cases of insensitive beliefs has a different basis.
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