Oxford Studies in Epistemology Volume 1

Klappentext Oxford Studies in Epistemology is a major new biennial volume offering a regular snapshot of state-of-the-art work in this important field. Under the guidance of a distinguished editorial board composed of leading philosophers in North America! Europe! and Australasia! it will publish exemplary papers in epistemology! broadly construed. Anyone wanting to understand the latest developments at the leading edge of the discipline can start here.Editorial board includes Stewart Cohen! Keith DeRose! Richard Fumerton! Alvin Goldman! Alan Hajek! Gilbert Harman! Frank Jackson! James Joyce! Scott Sturgeon! Jonathan Vogel! and Timothy Williamson. Zusammenfassung Offers a regular snapshot of state-of-the-art work in epistemology. This work covers topics such as: traditional epistemological questions concerning the nature of belief, justification, and knowledge, the status of scepticism, and the nature of the a priori; developments in epistemology; foundational questions in decision-theory; and more. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: Alexander Bird: Abductive Knowledge and Holmesian Inference 2: James Cargile: The Fallacy of Epistemicism 3: Hartry Field: Recent Debates about the A Priori 4: Kit Fine: Our Knowledge of Mathematical Objects 5: Joseph Halpern: Sleeping Beauty Reconsidered: Conditioning and Reflection in Asynchronous Systems 6: Frank Keil: Doubt, Deference, and Deliberation: Understanding and Using the Division of Cognitive Labour 7: Tom Kelly: The Epistemic Significance of Disagreement 8: John MacFarlane: The Assessment Sensitivity of Knowledge Attributions 9: Jonathan Schaffer: Contrastive Knowledge 10: Stephen Schiffer: Paradox and the A Priori 11: Brian Weatherson: Scepticism, Rationalism, and Externalism

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• Authors: Tamar Szabo (Cornell University Gendler, Tamar Szabo Hawthorne Gendler
• Assisted by: Tamar Sz. Gendler (Editor), Tamar Szabo Gendler (Editor), Gendler Tamar Szabo (Editor), John Hawthorne (Editor), Hawthorne John (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.12.2005
• EAN: 9780199285907
• ISBN: 978-0-19-928590-7
• No. of pages: 354
• Series: Oxford Studies in Epistemology; Oxford Studies in Epistemology
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / Epistemology, Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge, Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge