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Autonomous Knowledge: Radical Enhancement, Autonomy, and the Future of Knowing motivates and develops a new research programme in epistemology that is centred around the concept of epistemic autonomy.
About the author
J. Adam Carter,
Reader in Epistemology, University of Glasgow J. Adam Carter is Reader in Philosophy at the University of Glasgow, where he is the deputy director the COGITO Epistemology Research Centre. Adam has published widely in epistemology, with over 100+ articles in venues such as
Noûs,
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research,
Philosophical Quarterly,
Analysis, and
Philosophical Studies. His current work has focused on themes including social epistemology, epistemic relativism, know-how, extended epistemology, and virtue epistemology.
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Autonomous Knowledge: Radical Enhancement, Autonomy, and the Future of Knowing motivates and develops a new research programme in epistemology that is centred around the concept of epistemic autonomy.
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The search for a plausible, comprehensive account of the necessary and sufficient conditions for knowledge gets a boost from Carter's Autonomous Knowledge...Carter skillfully blends the example-rich epistemology of the 1970s and 1980s with the vision of a future increasingly described by transhumanists. Carter's arguments are detailed, well-researched, and sensitive to nuance,...those interested in the theory of knowledge should embrace this book as an example of how to continue the research program on knowledge in an era of burgeoning scientific possibilities for human cognitive enhancement.
