Le Petit prince. 325363). Note, however, that on Langtons considered view (2009), an externalist account of knowledge may suffice to allay her initial worries. Erkenntnis Epub 2016 Apr 3. 9 0 obj <>/Metadata 571 0 R/ViewerPreferences 572 0 R>> Anscombe, G. E. M. ([1957] 1963). In J. Coreil and J. D. Mull, (Eds. <> A recent report from the World Health Organization (2016) states that universal health coverage cannot be achieved without this form of e-health. <> One of the central concerns of philosophy is to understand the concept of knowledge, which might help us distinguish between the convictions of a Heaven's Gate believer and the convictions of, say, a scientist. New York: Routledge. I thank a referee for pressing me on this point. It would be hard for creatures like us either to keep the world on track without the help of our theoretical systems (e.g. 12 0 obj Externalism in the philosophy of mind has been thought by many to pose a serious threat to the claim that subjects are in general authoritative with regard to certain of their own intentional . stream <> Knowing what things look like. The site is secure. Universal health coverage, as well as comprehensive primary health care, has been an overarching goal of the international health and global health community since the Alma Ata conference in 1978, but these goals are very difficult to achieve. The other case is of someone writing something on a board without looking, discussed both earlier (p. 53) and immediately after (p. 82). Empirical evidence is the information obtained through observation and documentation of certain behavior and patterns or through an experiment. Sometimes this higher power is an individual person or a group of people, such as the 'dear leader' who is worshipped by the North Korean proletariat. See Schwenkler (2015) for a helpful review of the literature on practical knowledge, along with a positive Anscombean account of the nature of the phenomenon. 2 More recently, it has received significant attention in philosophy of language (see n5 below). London: Palgrave-Macmillan. endobj Authoritative knowledge defines what is worth striving for and the university has a part to play in this Leuven, March 4th 2011 . Defenders of versions of KNA include Unger (1975), Slote (1979), Williamson (2000), DeRose (2002), Reynolds (2002), and Hawthorne (2004), among many others. Finally, thanks especially to David Charles, Steve Darwall, Reier Helle, Jason Stanley, Gideon Yaffe, and Zoltn Gendler Szab for comments and discussion on earlier drafts. It does not concern the beliefs that are justified. The Monist, 68, 295324. (1967). This concept relates to legitimacy in the health care setting as authoritative knowledge shapes interactions between patients and caregivers, access to knowledge, and health care decision-making. Having been reared in a distinctively religious environment, he remained concerned about the place of religious belief in human thought and action. Browse Dictionary a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z -# Douven, I. 2003;37(2):89-108 Ethics, 118, 388409. Science and Technology Studies provides a foundation from which to examine the historical contexts and meanings of technologies and how people interact with them. For our purposes, it doesnt much matter at this point whether the cognition at play always has the status of knowledge or a weaker state. See Huemer (2013) for a helpful summary of work on conservatism. Authority, law and morality. Childbirth and Authoritative Knowledge offers first-hand ethnographic research conducted by anthropologists in sixteen different societies and cultures and includes the interdisciplinary perspectives of a social psychologist, a sociologist, an epidemiologist, a staff member of the World Health Organization, and a community midwife. Report of the third global survey on eHealth. A Defence of Arbitrary Objects. I should also emphasize that my use of the term is meant to be consistent with knowledge-first views (Williamson 2000). 8600 Rockville Pike Why is marble white?. Judgment and agency. I argue against the thesis that intentional action requires knowledge in Pieros Glasscock (2019a), though I have become doubtful whether the thesis should be ascribed to Anscombe, as is universally assumed in the scholarship. <> Geneva. In political philosophy, the jurisdiction of political authority, the location of sovereignty, the balancing of freedom and authority (cf. 19 0 obj 8091). (1995). Journal of the History of Philosophy, 57, 291417. Breckenridge, W., & Magidor, O. Intending is believing: A defense of strong cognitivism. It is sanctioned power, institutionalized power. ), Anthropology and Primary Health Care pp. Clash is DeRoses (2002) term for the air of incompatibility associated with these sentences. stream 3 0 obj I should nonetheless register that my views on this matter are hesitant, and would be open to being convinced that the thesis should be broader in scope, encompassing forms of consciously exercised powers other than authority. Knowledge and its limits. American Philosophical Quarterly, 50, 121135. Study now. Studying knowledge is one of those perennial topicslike the nature of matter in the hard sciencesthat philosophy has been refining since before the time of Plato. An example of authoritative knowledge can be seen when a patient explains their symptoms to a physician who then makes a diagnosis and relays the results to the patient. Specially written for a broad popular readership, Kenny's lucid and stimulating history will become the definitive work for anyone interested in the people and ideas that shaped the course of Western . 8X U=f9 Mind. The Philosophical Review, 115, 449485. Zagzebski, L. T. (2015). This week on the blog we are hosting a guest post by Heather Baily, a Doctoral studentin Anthropology at Case Western Reserve University. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Knowledge in and of nursing. endobj 15 0 obj 2018 May 2;18(1):119. doi: 10.1186/s12884-018-1752-y. 11 0 obj because it already has been given a referent). Pieros Glasscock, J.S. Further, the interface of authoritative knowledge and the technological imperative suggests that AK derives not only from medical provider status and technology use, but also from the adequacy and trustworthiness of the information. Wiki User. Linguistics and Philosophy; As Taught In Spring 2014 Level Undergraduate. Whats wrong with immediate knowledge? <>/ExtGState<>/ProcSet[/PDF/Text/ImageB/ImageC/ImageI] >>/MediaBox[ 0 0 612 792] /Contents 4 0 R/Group<>/Tabs/S/StructParents 0>> Bethesda, MD 20894, Web Policies ), Logic, methodology and philosophy of science (pp. <> Oxford: Oxford University Press. Setiya, K. (2007). Earlier versions of this paper were presented at the Epistemology Colloquium at Queens University in Kingston, Ontario, and at Yale University. (2017). The great philosophers such as Plato or Aristotle, spoke of intuitive knowledge and rescued its importance within the mental and intellectual development of human beings. That all our knowledge begins with experience there can be no doubt. https://doi.org/10.1093/mind/fzz056. Duncan Pritchard is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Irvine, USA. We could give graded conditions in terms of accuracy, and there are some advantages to this view, but for our purposes the non-graded account will suffice. To use a distinction familiar from ethical contexts: the former are backward-looking grounds, the latter forward-looking. Among the political regimes, the authoritarian takes an intermediate position between the extreme right, despotic, totalitarian and moderately democratic. Chisholm, R. M. (1989). Schwenkler, J. Accomodation, meaning, and implicature: Interdisciplinary foundations for pragmatics. How competence matters in epistemology. New History of Western Philosophy. (1985b). Instantial terms, anaphora and arbitrary objects. Thomason, R. H. (1990). Editor in Chief. Another way in which one might form a false belief is if one mistakenly uses ones authority. Public health administrators in the pilot project districts, as well as doctors and nurses who worked with the program, all spoke favorably of the new technology. So, I think (a) and (b) collapse into a single option. Embodying culture: Pregnancy in Japan and Israel. PMC Basil Blackwell: Oxford. Ignorance: A case for scepticism. Often human truths cannot be expressed using the language of rationality; it seems the artist attempt to address these truths while embracing their own creative process. AUTHORITATIVE KNOWLEDGE: based on information received from people, books, a supreme being, etc. Philosophy. Let's look at each in more detail: Authoritarian Leaders. I argue that, like perceptual knowledge, authoritative knowledge is non-inferential. Langton, R. (2004). In J. Lackey & E. Sosa (Eds. 1996 Apr;29(4):329-37 Assertion, knowledge, and rational credibility. Author J H Kennell 1 . However, their meanings differ: while power is defined as "the ability to influence somebody to do something that he/she would not have done", authority refers to a claim of legitimacy, the justification and right to exercise that power. The most sophisticated treatment of this worry is by Langton (2004), targeting Vellemans (2001) cognitivist account of intention. According to Michaels, in the Encyclopedia of Social Sciences, authority is the capacity, innate or acquired for exercising ascendancy over a group. Tacit Knowledge, Tacit knowledge Though it is a psychological fact that human beings acquire, retain, and employ tacit knowledge, accounts of its nature and function Testimony, TESTIMONY The term testimony in contemporary analytic philosophy is used as label for the spoken or written word, when this purports to pass on the s Knowledge Management, Although knowledge management assumes a . Bennett, J. We want to see what precisely it means to "know" something, and what the legitimate avenues are for gaining knowledge. "Authoritative" refers to the characteristic of being believable, and grounded in research, knowledge and fact. Reacting to a hazard in a manner consistent with a race, a shout, a jump . This sense of the question is senseless for mere objects of nature, e.g. Topics Humanities. Practitioners reported decreased maternal mortality since the implementation of this program, as well as an increase in utilization of local clinics and trust in the staff. Pieros Glasscock, J. S. (2019a). Data that contrasts with human practice and . 1 after all, the philosophical study of authority has predominantly fallen to ethicists and political philosophers, receiving little attention by epistemologists, unlike Authoritative Knowledge and Its Construction From the book Childbirth and Authoritative Knowledge Brigitte Jordan https://doi.org/10.1525/9780520918733-003 Cite this 47 You currently have no access to view or download this content. government site. But that is incidental. Sir Anthony Kenny presents a fascinating and authoritative new history of Western philosophy. 5354). It is sanctioned power, institutionalized power. Setiya, K. (2008). Typically, community health nurses are younger and not from the village in which they are assigned to work. World Health Organization. In government, the term authority is often used interchangeably with power. We saw this above in connection with knowledge that is required for concept possession. Learning Resource Types assignment_turned_in . Self-knowing agents. However, Bird (2016) has convinced me that a belief is based on evidence just in case it is based on an inference where that evidence is used. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 9f^(1 T / F True 1.4, p. 28 Evans, G. (1982). endobj Juan S. Pieros Glasscock. Sosa, E. (2010). Lasonen-Aarnio, M. (2010). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Department of Philosophy, Georgia State University, P.O. ]DiSH,P 0"AV4HaLl[t6-^AC8I(O:^},$Q7ZXR}!q*Bz2HFDiJy7f dMa&PBYlQRAGFRB:IOBs!t)BHt7Qo(N*v:(C1'ouE1`I(HBrDaS`gn Content preservation. sharing sensitive information, make sure youre on a federal Mind, 90, 441443. Oxford: Oxford University Press. The present considerations are meant to support this view. She has a MA in Anthropology from CWRU and a BA in Anthropology and Sociology from Colorado State University.