In Defence of Swamping

Thought: A Journal of Philosophy 2 (4):357-366 (2013)
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Abstract

The Swamping Problem shows that two claims are incompatible: the claim that knowledge has more epistemic value than mere true belief and a strict variant of the claim that all epistemic value is truth or instrumental on truth. Most current solutions reject. Carter and Jarvis and Carter, Jarvis and Rubin object instead to a principle that underlies the problem. This paper argues that their objections fail and the problem stands. It also outlines a novel solution which rejects. By carefully distinguishing value from expected value, one can argue that the greater value of knowledge is merely apparent

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Julien Dutant
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On What Matters: Two-Volume Set.Derek Parfit - 2001 - New York: Oxford University Press.
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