%0 Journal Article %1 hawthorne2008knowledge %A Hawthorne, John %A Stanley, Jason %D 2008 %J Journal of Philosophy %K action design epistemology knowledge philosophy %N 10 %P 571-590 %T Knowledge and action %U http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~jasoncs/knowledgeactionfinal.pdf %V 105 %X What is the relation between knowledge and action? According to one standard picture, there is none. Rational action is a matter of maximizing expected utility, where expected utility is a function of utility and subjective credence. It is subjective degrees of belief that matter for rational action, not knowledge. On this picture, having knowledge that p is independent of whether it is rational to act on one’s belief that p: knowledge that p is not sufficient since one may know that p despite lacking sufficiently high subjective credence to warrant acting on the proposition that p; and knowledge that p is not necessary, since high subjective credence can rationalize action even in the absence of knowledge.

@article{hawthorne2008knowledge, abstract = {What is the relation between knowledge and action? According to one standard picture, there is none. Rational action is a matter of maximizing expected utility, where expected utility is a function of utility and subjective credence. It is subjective degrees of belief that matter for rational action, not knowledge. On this picture, having knowledge that p is independent of whether it is rational to act on one’s belief that p: knowledge that p is not sufficient since one may know that p despite lacking sufficiently high subjective credence to warrant acting on the proposition that p; and knowledge that p is not necessary, since high subjective credence can rationalize action even in the absence of knowledge.}, added-at = {2009-10-27T13:00:49.000+0100}, author = {Hawthorne, John and Stanley, Jason}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/2578f8a28786c2291bf33825da7b65661/yish}, interhash = {e88c80a300d1c6013f155b3b43f63f34}, intrahash = {578f8a28786c2291bf33825da7b65661}, journal = {Journal of Philosophy}, keywords = {action design epistemology knowledge philosophy}, number = 10, pages = {571-590}, timestamp = {2009-10-27T13:00:49.000+0100}, title = {Knowledge and action}, url = {http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~jasoncs/knowledgeactionfinal.pdf}, volume = 105, year = 2008 }