1.

Record Nr.

UNINA990004021710403321

Autore

Mintz, Steven

Titolo

A prison of expectations. : The family in Victorian culture. / Steven Mintz

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York ; London : New York University Press, 1983

Descrizione fisica

234 p. ; 23 cm

Disciplina

306.85

Locazione

FLFBC

Collocazione

306.85 MIN 1

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910227351403321

Autore

McBride Mark

Titolo

Basic knowledge and conditions on knowledge / / Mark McBride

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Open Book Publishers, 2017

Cambridge, England : , : Open Book Publishers, , 2017

ISBN

1-78374-286-0

979-1-03-650965-0

1-78374-285-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (240 pages)

Disciplina

121

Soggetti

Justification (Theory of knowledge)

Knowledge, Theory of

Cognitive science New

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.



Nota di contenuto

Part one. Exploring basic knowledge -- Reflections on Moore's 'proof' -- First reflections on the problem of easy knowledge -- The problem of easy knowledge: towards a solution -- Evidence and transmission failure -- A puzzle for dogmatism -- Part two. Conditions on knowledge: conclusive reasons, sensitivity, and safety -- Conclusive reasons -- Sensitivity -- Safety -- Safety: an application.

Sommario/riassunto

McBride's book considers a variety of puzzles concerning immediate justification and knowledge. These puzzles are of active interest in the field, and it is useful to address them all in a single volume. I learned from this book, even when it covered issues I already knew well.  â€•Prof. Christopher Tucker, William & Mary University  How do we know what we know? In this stimulating and rigorous book, Mark McBride explores two sets of issues in contemporary epistemology: the problems that warrant transmission poses for the category of basic knowledge; and the status of conclusive reasons, sensitivity, and safety as conditions that are necessary for knowledge.  To have basic knowledge is to know (have justification for) some proposition immediately, i.e., knowledge (justification) that doesn't depend on justification for any other proposition. This book considers several puzzles that arise when you take seriously the possibility that we can have basic knowledge.  McBride's analysis draws together two vital strands in contemporary epistemology that are usually treated in isolation from each other. Additionally, its innovative arguments include a new application of the safety condition to the law.