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11 - Knowledge and reasons for belief
- By Alan Millar, University of Stirling
Edited by Andrew Reisner, McGill University, Montréal, Asbjørn Steglich-Petersen, Aarhus Universitet, Denmark
Book:

Reasons for Belief

Published online:

05 July 2011

Print publication:

02 June 2011, pp 223-243
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Summary

This chapter seeks to make sense of the idea that, for agents, knowledge at least normally goes along with being justified in believing. It indicates how one might develop an account of testimony building on a non standard account of knowledge from indicator phenomena. A conception of the importance of recognitional abilities is developed to yield an account of reasons for belief in the cases under consideration and a general view of the connection between knowledge, justified belief and reasons. A problem structure analogous to that described in relation to testimony arises in cases of perceptual knowledge. By contrast with perceptual knowledge, the problem is not that what is thought to supply the reason is not of the right category to constitute a reason. The chapter explains how with respect to various kinds of knowledge one can gain a lot from what initially seemed to be so little.