Epistemic Side-Effect Effect and Butler’s Problem: A Test for the Omissions Account

• Authors: Katarzyna Paprzycka-Hausman

Title variants

PL

Epistemiczny efekt Knobe’a a problem Butlera. Test hipotezy zaniechaniowej

EN

Epistemic Side-Effect Effect and Butler’s Problem: A Test for the Omissions Account

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

PL

The omissions account offers structurally close explanations of the Knobe effect, the Butler problem, and the epistemic side-effect effect. Moreover, it predicts that the epistemic side-effect effect should be present not only in Knobe-type stories but also in Butler-type stories. Since the probability that the effect takes place is not greater than 1/6, the attribution of knowledge that it will take place is prima facie irrational. However, according to the omissions account, in the immoral situations, the knowledge claim can be read as a consequence-knowledge claim, which can be rationally accepted. I report the results of two studies, based on Nadelhoffer’s study of the Butler problem, where ascriptions of knowledge in Butler-type scenarios are investigated.

• Publisher: University of Warsaw, Institute of Philosophy
• Journal: Filozofia Nauki
• Year: 2018
• Volume: 26
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 49-77

Dates

published

2018-11-06

Contributors

author

Katarzyna Paprzycka-Hausman

Identifiers

DOI

10.14394/filnau.2018.0017