Epistemic Issues in Pragmatic Perspective

Informationen zum Autor By Nicholas Rescher Klappentext This book presents a nonstandard approach to epistemology. Where standard epistemology generally focuses on the certain knowledge the Greeks called epistêmê, the present focus is on some less assured modes of information. Its deliberations focus on such cognitively suboptimal processes as conjecture, guesswork, and plausible supposition. Zusammenfassung This book presents a nonstandard approach to epistemology. Where standard epistemology generally focuses on the certain knowledge the Greeks called epistêmê, the present focus is on some less assured modes of information. Its deliberations focus on such cognitively suboptimal processes as conjecture, guesswork, and plausible supposition. Inhaltsverzeichnis PREFACEINTRODUCTIONChapter 1: Sensible ConjectureChapter 2: Imprecision Chapter 3: Truth-Contextuality and PlausibilityChapter 4: Managing Imperfect InformationChapter 5: Common SenseChapter 6: Terminating Explanatory RegressChapter 7: Quantitative EpistemologyChapter 8: On Kinds of ThingsChapter 9: Prediction and KnowabilityChapter 10: Cognitive FashionsChapter 11: Problems of Absolute TruthChapter 12: Unethical Beliefs, Reprehensible OpinionsChapter 13: Culpable IgnoranceChapter 14: Epistemic TriageChapter 15: Inconceivable PossibilitiesChapter 16: Optimalism in Explaining the Nature of Things Chapter 17: Conclusion

Product details

• Authors: Nicholas Resche, Nicholas Rescher
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.02.2018
• EAN: 9781498563536
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-6353-6
• No. of pages: 240
• Series: American Philosophy Series; American Philosophy; American Philosophy Series
• 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