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Knowledge as commitment

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 November 2021

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Ken Binmore*
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Economics Department, Bristol University, Bristol BS8 1TB, UK. k.binmore@ucl.ac.uk
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Abstract

This commentary on the paper “Knowledge before belief” argues that it is not only in the cognitive sciences that knowledge should be separated into a separate category from belief, but also in rational decision theory. It outlines how knowledge-as-commitment – as distinct from knowledge-as-belief – can be built into an extension of the economic theory of revealed preference.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 44 , 2021 , e144
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Copyright © The Author(s), 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press

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