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The key to the knowledge norm of action is ambiguity

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Rich, Patricia:
The key to the knowledge norm of action is ambiguity.
In: Synthese. Bd. 199 (2021) . - S. 9669-9698.
ISSN 1573-0964
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-021-03221-5

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Emmy Noether Project "Knowledge and Decisions"
315078566

Projektfinanzierung: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft

Abstract

Knowledge-first epistemology includes a knowledge norm of action: roughly, act only on what you know. This norm has been criticized, especially from the perspective of so-called standard decision theory. Mueller and Ross provide example decision problems which seem to show that acting properly cannot require knowledge. I argue that this conclusion depends on applying a particular decision theory (namely, Savage-style Expected Utility Theory) which is ill-motivated in this context. Agents’ knowledge is often most plausibly formalized as an ambiguous epistemic state, and the theory of decision under ambiguity is then the appropriate modeling tool. I show how to model agents as acting rationally on the basis of their knowledge according to such a theory. I conclude that the tension between the knowledge norm of action and formal decision theory is illusory; the knowledge-first paradigm should be used to actively select the decision-theoretical tools that can best capture the knowledge-based decisions in any given situation.

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Publikationsform: Artikel in einer Zeitschrift
Begutachteter Beitrag: Ja
Keywords: Knowledge; Decision-making; Ambiguity; Knowledge-first epistemology;
Imprecise probability; Expected utility; Uncertainty
Institutionen der Universität: Fakultäten > Kulturwissenschaftliche Fakultät > Institut für Philosophie > Juniorprofessur Wissenschaftstheorie der Ökonomie > Juniorprofessur Wissenschaftstheorie der Ökonomie - Juniorprof. Dr. Patricia Lynn Rich
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Fakultäten > Kulturwissenschaftliche Fakultät
Fakultäten > Kulturwissenschaftliche Fakultät > Institut für Philosophie
Fakultäten > Kulturwissenschaftliche Fakultät > Institut für Philosophie > Juniorprofessur Wissenschaftstheorie der Ökonomie
Titel an der UBT entstanden: Ja
Themengebiete aus DDC: 100 Philosophie und Psychologie > 100 Philosophie
100 Philosophie und Psychologie > 120 Epistemologie
300 Sozialwissenschaften > 330 Wirtschaft
Eingestellt am: 09 Okt 2021 21:00
Letzte Änderung: 24 Mär 2022 08:19
URI: https://eref.uni-bayreuth.de/id/eprint/67273