Knowledge and skepticism:
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Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. MIT Press c2010
Series:Topics in contemporary philosophy
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Item Description:"Earlier versions of the essays in this volume were presented at the seventh annual Inland Northwest Philosophy Conference (INPC), held between April 30 and May 2, 2004, in Pullman, Washington, and Moscow, Idaho"--Acknowledgments. - "A Bradford book."
Includes bibliographical references and index
I Knowledge -- 1 Knowledge and Conclusive Evidence -- 2 Theorizing Justification -- 3 Truth Tracking and the Problem of Reflective Knowledge -- 4 Contextualism, Skepticism, and Warranted Assertibility Maneuvers -- 5 Knowledge In and Out of Context -- 6 Contextualism in Epistemology and the Context-Sensitivity of 'Knows' -- 7 Locke's Account of Sensitive Knowledge -- 8 Revelations: On What Is Manifest in Visual Experience -- 8 Knowing Hurts -- 10 Reasoning Defeasibily about Probabilities -- II Skepticism -- 11 Anti-Individualism, Self-Knowledge, and Why Skepticism Cannot Be Cartesian -- 12 Is There a Reason for Skepticism? -- 13 Skepticism Aside -- 14 Hume's Skeptical Naturalism
There are two main questions in epistemology: What is knowledge? And: Do we have any of it? The first question asks after the nature of a concept; the second involves grappling with the skeptic, who believes that no one knows anything. This collection of original essays addresses the themes of knowledge and skepticism, offering both contemporary epistemological analysis and historical perspectives from leading philosophers and rising scholars. Contributors first consider knowledge: the intrinsic nature of knowledge in particular, aspects of what distinguishes knowledge from true belief; the extrinsic examination of knowledge, focusing on contextualist accounts; and types of knowledge, specifically perceptual, introspective, and rational knowledge. The final chapters offer various perspectives on skepticism. Knowledge and Skepticism provides an eclectic yet coherent set of essays by distinguished scholars and important new voices. The cutting-edge nature of its contributions and its interdisciplinary character make it a valuable resource for a wide audience, for philosophers of language as well as for epistemologists, and for psychologists, decision theorists, historians, and students at both the advanced undergraduate and graduate levels
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (viii, 367 p., [4] p. of plates)
ISBN:0262265788
026251396X
9780262265782
9780262513968

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