Exemplars of Truth

The monograph explains how knowledge requires the capacity to justify or defend the target claim of knowledge. Defensibility is based on a background system. Lehrer argues that reflection on experience yields a self-referential exemplar representation.This is the novel contribution of his new book to truth about the perceptual world.

List of contents

• Acknowledgements


• Introduction


• Chapter On: Defensible Knowledge and Exemplar Representation


• Chapter Two: Smells, Exemplars, and Evidence: Knowledge of the External World


• Chapter Three: Knowledge, Autonomy, and Exemplars


• Chapter Four: Exemplars, Truth, and Scientific Revolution


• Chapter Five: Intuition and Coherence in the Keystone Loop


• Epilogue

About the author

Keith Lehrer is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, University of Arizona

Summary

The monograph explains how knowledge requires the capacity to justify or defend the target claim of knowledge. Defensibility is based on a background system. Lehrer argues that reflection on experience yields a self-referential exemplar representation.This is the novel contribution of his new book to truth about the perceptual world.

Additional text

Lehrer's book is an excellent contribution to contemporary epistemology. It is a detailed reflection on a central divide for theories of knowledge. It is well-worth working through this latest of Lehrer's superb contributions to epistemology.

Product details

• Authors: Keith Lehrer, Keith (Emeritus Professor of Philosophy Lehrer, Lehrer Keith
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.02.2019
• EAN: 9780190884277
• ISBN: 978-0-19-088427-7
• No. of pages: 168
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, Social & political philosophy, Ethics & moral philosophy, social and political philosophy, Ethics and moral philosophy