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Epistemology Futures

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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. Contributors: Paul M. Churchland! Catherine Z. Elgin! Richard Feldman! A. C. Grayling! Stephen Hetherington! Christopher Hookway! Hilary Kornblith! Mark Kaplan! William G. Lycan! Adam Morton! Jonathan M. Weinberg! Linda Zagzebski Zusammenfassung What methods best serve epistemology? Which phenomena and concepts deserve more attention from it? Are there approaches and assumptions that have impeded its progress? This volume 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 ...

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Authors Stephen (EDT) Hetherington
Assisted by Stephen Hetherington (Editor), Hetherington Stephen (Editor)
Publisher Oxford University Press
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 04.05.2006
 
EAN 9780199273324
ISBN 978-0-19-927332-4
No. of pages 241
Dimensions 165 mm x 235 mm x 19 mm
Subjects Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries
Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works

PHILOSOPHY / Epistemology, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge, Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge

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