LEADER 03757nam 22005055 450 001 9910154633403321 005 20210114160953.0 010 $a0-674-97400-X 010 $a0-674-97394-1 024 7 $a10.4159/9780674973947 035 $a(CKB)3710000000971628 035 $a(DE-B1597)502315 035 $a(OCoLC)966446428 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780674973947 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4771938 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000971628 100 $a20180924d2017 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aSources of Knowledge $eOn the Concept of a Rational Capacity for Knowledge /$fAndrea Kern 210 1$aCambridge, MA : $cHarvard University Press, $d[2017] 210 4$d©2017 215 $a1 online resource (304 pages) 300 $aAn earlier version of this work was originally published as Quellen des Wissens: Zum Begriff vernünft iger Erkenntnisfähigkeiten,© Suhrkamp Verlag Frankfurt am Main 2006 311 $a0-674-41611-2 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tIntroduction: ?But We Can Always Err!? -- $tPart One: Knowledge and Reason -- $tIntroduction -- $tI. Finite Knowledge -- $tII. Finite Justification -- $tPart Two: The Primacy of Knowledge -- $tIntroduction -- $tIII. Doubting Knowledge -- $tIV. The Dilemma of Epistemology -- $tV. What Are Grounds? -- $tPart Three: The Nature of Knowledge -- $tIntroduction -- $tVI. Rational Capacities -- $tVII. Rational Capacities for Knowledge -- $tVIII. Rational Capacities and Circumstances -- $tPart Four: The Teleology of Knowledge -- $tIntroduction -- $tIX. The Teleology of Rational Capacities -- $tX. Knowledge and Practice -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex 330 $aHow can human beings, who are liable to error, possess knowledge? The skeptic finds this question impossible to answer. If we can err, then it seems the grounds on which we believe do not rule out that we are wrong. Most contemporary epistemologists agree with the skeptic that we can never believe on grounds that exclude error. Sources of Knowledge moves beyond this predicament by demonstrating that some major problems of contemporary philosophy have their roots in the lack of a metaphysical category that is fundamental to our self-understanding: the category of a rational capacity for knowledge. The author argues that we can disarm skeptical doubt by conceiving knowledge as an act of a rational capacity. This enables us to appreciate human fallibility without falling into skepticism, for it allows us to understand how we can form beliefs about the world on grounds that exclude error. Knowledge is a fundamental capacity of the human mind. Human beings, as such, are knowers. In this way, the book seeks to understand knowledge from within our self-understanding as knowers. It develops a metaphysics of the human mind as existing through knowledge of itself, which knowledge--as the human being is finite--takes the form of a capacity. Regaining the concept of a rational capacity for knowledge, Kern makes a powerful and original contribution to philosophy that reinvigorates the tradition of Aristotle and Kant--thinkers whose relevance for contemporary epistemology has yet to be fully appreciated.--$cProvided by publisher. 606 $aError 606 $aKnowledge, Theory of 606 $aReason 615 0$aError. 615 0$aKnowledge, Theory of. 615 0$aReason. 676 $a121/.3 700 $aKern$b Andrea, $0255922 701 $aSmyth$b Daniel$0950454 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910154633403321 996 $aSources of Knowledge$92890408 997 $aUNINA