Inquiry, Knowledge, and Understanding

This study takes inquiry as the starting point for epistemological theorising. It uses this idea to develop new and systematic answers to some of the most fundamental questions in epistemology, including about the nature of core epistemic phenomena as well as their value and the extent to which we possess them.

List of contents

• Introduction


• 1: The Aim of Inquiry


• 2: Knowledge


• 3: Conditions on Knowledge


• 4: Understanding


• 5: Epistemic Value


• 6: Scepticism


• Appendix A


• Appendix B


• Bibliography


• Index

About the author

Christoph Kelp is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Glasgow. His publications include Good Thinking: A Knowledge First Virtue Epistemology (Routledge, 2018). He is the winner of the 2017 Young Epistemologist Prize.

Summary

This study takes inquiry as the starting point for epistemological theorising. It uses this idea to develop new and systematic answers to some of the most fundamental questions in epistemology, including about the nature of core epistemic phenomena as well as their value and the extent to which we possess them.

Product details

• Authors: Kelp, Christoph Kelp, Christoph (Director of Cogito: Epistemology Kelp, Christoph (Director of COGITO: Epistemology Research Centre and Senior Lecturer in Philosophy Kelp
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.04.2021
• EAN: 9780192896094
• ISBN: 978-0-19-289609-4
• No. of pages: 224
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / Epistemology, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, PHILOSOPHY / Language, Epistemology, Ethics & moral philosophy, Ethics and moral philosophy, Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge, Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge