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Klappentext How might epistemology build upon its past and present, so_ as to be better in the future? Epistemology Futures _ takes bold steps towards answering that question. What _ methods will best serve epistemology? Which phenomena and _ concepts deserve more attention from it? Are there _ approaches and assumptions that have impeded its progress _ until now? This volume contains provocative essays by _ prominent epistemologists, presenting many new ideas for _ possible improvements in how to do epistemology. Doubt is _ cast upon the powers of conceptual analysis and of _ epistemological intuition. Surprising aspects of knowledge_ are noticed. What is it? What is it not? Scepticism's limits are traced. What threatens us as potential knowers? What _ does not? The nature and special significance of inquiry, of normative virtues, of understanding, and of disagreement are elucidated, all with an eye on sharpening epistemology's _ future focus. There is definite insight and potential _ foresight. How might real epistemological progress occur in the future? Epistemology Futures offers some intriguing clues. Zusammenfassung How might epistemology build upon its past and present, so as to be better in the future? This work takes steps towards answering that question. It contains essays by prominent epistemologists, presenting many ideas for possible improvements in how to do epistemology. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: Stephen Hetherington: Introduction: epistemological progress 2: Hilary Kornblith: Appeals to intuition and the ambitions of epistemology 3: Jonathan M. Weinberg: What's epistemology for? The case for neopragmatism in normative metaepistemology 4: Paul M. Churchland: Inner spaces and outer spaces: the new epistemology 5: Stephen Hetherington: How to know (that knowledge-that is knowledge-how) 6: Christopher Hookway: Epistemology and inquiry: the primacy of practice 7: Adam Morton: Knowing what to think about: when epistemology meets the theory of choice 8: Linda Zagzebski: Ideal agents and ideal observers in epistemology 9: William G. Lycan: On the Gettier Problem problem 10: A. C. Grayling: Epistemic finitude and the framework of inference 11: Mark Kaplan: If you know, you can't be wrong 12: Catherine Z. Elgin: From knowledge to understanding 13: Richard Feldman: Epistemological puzzles about disagreement ...
