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Program

Research Programs: Summer Stipends

Period of Performance

6/1/1978 - 7/31/1978

Funding Totals

$2,500.00 (approved)
$2,500.00 (awarded)

Recent Work in the Analysis of Knowledge

FAIN: FT-14041-78

Robert K. Shope
University of Massachusetts, Boston (Boston, MA 02125-3300)

To write a critical survey of recent work in the analysis of knowledge, covering publications primarily of the last decade, to be published in The American Philosophical Quarterly. Discussion will focus on the analysis of factual knowledge, that is, the provision of a set of individually necessary and jointly sufficient conditions for the truth of a statement of the form, "S knows that p." P.I. has written five recent papers concerning knowledge.