Epistemology & Cognition Lab

Prof. Nir Fresco

Information, veridicality, and inferential knowledge

Nir Fresco, Patrick McGivern, Aditya Ghose

Is information always true? According to some authors, including Dretske, Grice, Barwise, and recently, Floridi, who has defended the Veridicality Thesis, the answer is positive. For, on Floridi's view, there is an intimate relation between information and knowledge, which is always true. It is argued in this article that information used in inferential knowledge can, nevertheless, be false, thereby showing that the Veridicality Thesis is false.

Publication language English
Pages 61-75
Journal American Philosophical Quarterly
Volume 54
Issue number 1
Publication status Published - 01.01.2017

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Philosophy
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