How do you know? : the economics of ordinary knowledge /

How do ordinary people come to know or believe what they do? We need an account of this process to help explain why people act as they do. You might think I am acting irrationally--against my interest or my purpose--until you realize that what you know and what I know differ significantly. My action...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hardin, Russell, 1940- (Author)
Format: Licensed eBooks
Language:English
Published: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press ©2009.
Online Access:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt7s4d3
Table of Contents:
  • Ordinary knowledge
  • Popular knowledge of science
  • Democratic participation
  • Liberalism
  • Moral knowledge
  • Institutional knowledge
  • Religious belief and practice
  • Culture
  • Extremism.