Epistemology: an introduction to the theory of knowledge
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 369-401) and index |
| Physical Description: | xvii, 406 p. ill. : 23 cm |
| ISBN: | 0791458113 0791458121 |
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| adam_text | Contents
Preface
Introduction
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adii
KNOWLEDGE AND ITS PROBLEMS
Chapter
Is Knowledge True Justified Belief?
Modes of (Propositional) Knowledge
Other Basic Principles
Chapter
Problems of Metaknowledge
The Preface Paradox
The Diallelus
An Apory and Its Reconciliation:
K-Destabiuzation
Costs and Benefits
More on Fallibilism
The Comparative Fragility of Science:
Scientific Claims as Mere Estimates
Falltbiusm and the
Our (Putative) Truth and the Real Truth
Chapter
The Skeptic s No Certainty Argument
The Role of Certainty
The Certainty of Logic Versus
the Certainty of Life
3
7
10
15
15
19
22
23
26
27
29
34
37
37
39
41
vi
Pragmatic Inconsistency
Skepticism and Risk
Rationality and Cognitive Risk
The Economic Dimension: Costs and Benefits
The Deficiency of Skepticism f
Chapter
Naturalistic Perspective
Experience and Fact
Problems of Common-Cause Epistemology
Modes of Justification
The Evolutionary Aspect of Sensory Epistemology
Rational versus Natural Selection
Against
The Problem of Error
Conclusion
Chapter
The Need for Presumptions
The Role of Presumption
Plausibility and Presumption
Presumption and Probability
Presumption and Skepticism
How Presumption Works:
Presumptions
Chapter
The Cost Effectiveness of Sharing and Cooperating
in Information Acquisition and Management
The Advantages of Cooperation
Building Up Trust: An Economic Approach
Trust and Presumption
A Community of Inquirers
RATIONAL INQUIRY AND THE QUEST
Chapter
Hierarchical
Model of Ksssuwmmz
Cyclic SrsmmzMMm: The Network Model—
118
The Contrast Between Foundktionaeism
and coherentism
Problems of Foundationausm
Chapter
The Coherentist Approach to Inquiry
The Central Role of Data for a Coherentist
Truth-Criteriology
On Validating the Coherence Approach
Ideal Coherence
Truth as an Idealization
Chapter
Cognitive Realism
What s Wrong with Relativism
the ctecumstantial contextualism of reason
A Foothold of One s Own: The Primacy of Our
Own Position
The Arbitrament of Experience
Against Relativism
contextualisnc pluralism is compatible with
Commitment on Pursuing The Truth
The Achilles Heel of Relativism
Chapter
Objectivity and the Circumstantial University
of Reason
The
The Problem of Validating Objectivity
What is Right with Objectivism
Abandoning Objectivity is Pragmatically
Self^Defeamng
Chapter
Stage-Setmng for the Problem
Ideal versus Practical Rationality: The
Predicament of Reason
THE PROBLEM OF
The Pragmatic Turn: Even Cognitive
Rationality has a Pragmatic Rationale
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128
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131
135
139
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GoMênts
Alternasi»
The Self-reliance of Rationality is Nor
Viciously Circular
PROGRESS
Chapter
The Exploration Model of SccENTrac iNQuniY
The Demand for Enhancement
Technological Escalation: An Arms Race
Against Nature
Theorizing as Inductive Projection
Later Need Not Be-Lbsser
Cognitive Copernicanism
The Problem of Progress
198
203
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210
211
212
215
217
221
223
Chapter
Compiexification of Natural Science
The Principle of Least Effort and the
Methodological Status of Simpuctiy-Preference
en Science
complexificátion
The Expansion of Science
The Law of Logartthmic Returns
The Rationale and Implications of the Law
of Logarithmic Returns
The Growth of
The Deceleration of Scientific Progress
Predictive Implications of the Information/
Knowledge Relationship
254
Chapter
Boundless
Conditions of Perfected Science
Theoretical Adequacy: Issues of Erotetic
Completeness
Pragmatic Completeness
Predictive Completeness
Temporal Rnaiity
Contents
Perfected Science As
Affords a Useful, Contrast Conception
The Dispensability of Perfection
COGNITIVE LIMITS ANDTKEQPEST
Chapter
Chapter
Explaining the Possibility of Natural Science
279
Our Side
282
Nature s Side
284
Synthesis
287
Implications
289
Human Science as Characteristically Human
293
The Potential Diversity of Science
293
The One World, One Science Argument
297
A Quantitative Perspective
299
Comparability and Judgments of Relative
Advancement or Backwardness
305
Basic Principles
308
Chapter
Concrete versus Generic Knowledge and
Ignorance
Erotetic Incapacity
Divine versus Mundane Knowledge
Issues ofTemporalized Knowledge
Kant s Principle of Question Exfoliation
Cognitive Incapacity
Insolubilia Then and Now
Cognitive Incapacity
Identifying Insolubilia
Relating Knowledge to Ignorance
Postscript: A Cognitively Indeterminate
Universe
Chapter
Existence
Is Man the Measure?
Realism and Incapacity
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317
318
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321
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337
x ©ontents
The
TheCoGNITIVEInEXIIAUSTIBILITYOfThINGS
The Corrigibility* of Conceptions
The Cognitive Inexhaustibility of Things
n
Conceptual Basis of Realism as a Postulate
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The Pragmatic Foundation of Realism as a Basis
for Communication and Discourse t
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Science and Reality
Notes
Index -,.-: w;!,
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