LEADER 05540nam 2200733 a 450 001 9910779014103321 005 20230802005045.0 010 $a1-4411-9435-5 010 $a1-280-57779-7 010 $a9786613607546 010 $a1-4411-1783-0 035 $a(CKB)2550000000101337 035 $a(EBL)918764 035 $a(OCoLC)793996911 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000662118 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11470075 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000662118 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10713935 035 $a(PQKB)10004374 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC918764 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL918764 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10562615 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL360754 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6160615 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1744096 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1744096 035 $a(OCoLC)893336663 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000101337 100 $a20110804d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aEpistemology$b[electronic resource] $ethe key thinkers /$fedited by Stephen Hetherington 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aLondon $cContinuum$d2012 215 $a1 online resource (265 p.) 225 1 $aContinuum key thinkers 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a1-4411-0345-7 311 $a1-4411-5396-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCover; Halftilte; Title; Copyright; Contents; Notes on Contributors; CHAPTER 1: EPISTEMOLOGY'S PAST HERE AND NOW; 1. Key components; 2. Knowledge: epistemology's subject matter?; 3. Problems and progress; 4. Theorizing and science; 5. Beyond knowledge; 6. Plato; 7. Aristotle; 8. Ancient scepticism; 9. Descartes; 10. Locke, Berkeley, Hume; 11. Kant; 12. Pragmatism; 13. Wittgenstein; 14. Quine and Goldman; 15. Gettier's challenging legacy; 16. The book's structure; Notes; References; CHAPTER 2: PLATO'S EPISTEMOLOGY; 1. Introduction; 2. Plato's early epistemology; 3. The Meno; 4. The Phaedo 327 $a5. Taking stock6. The Republic; 7. The Theaetetus; 8. Concluding remarks; Notes; Further reading; References; CHAPTER 3: ARISTOTLE ON KNOWLEDGE; 1. Various forms of perceptual knowledge; 2. Reasoning and knowledge; 3. The role of phainomena in philosophical argument; 4. Syllogistic argument; 5. Appearances, inquiry and justification; 6. Knowledge THAT and knowledge WHY; 7. Scientific demonstration and first principles; 8. Different kinds of first principles; 9. Knowledge of essential natures and stages of inquiry; Notes; Further reading; References; CHAPTER 4: ANCIENT SCEPTICISM 327 $a1. Introduction2. Scepticism in the Academy; 3. Pyrrhonism revived; Note; Further reading; Modern literature; CHAPTER 5: THE EPISTEMOLOGY OF DESCARTES; 1. Knowledge in natural philosophy; 2. Metaphysical knowledge; 3. Appearance and reality; 4. Conclusion; Note; Further reading; References; CHAPTER 6: LOCKE, BERKELEY, HUME: EPISTEMOLOGY; 1. Introduction; 2. Ideas and knowledge; 3. Probability; 4. World and mind, existence and nature; 5. Summary; Note; Further reading; References; CHAPTER 7: KANT AND KANTIAN EPISTEMOLOGY; 1. Introduction; 2. Kant; 3. Kant's influence; 4. Conclusion; Notes 327 $aFurther readingReferences; CHAPTER 8: AMERICAN PRAGMATISM: FALLIBILISM AND COGNITIVE PROGRESS; 1. Peirce and the spirit of Cartesianism; 2. Scepticism and the method of doubt; 3. Peirce's critique of foundations and intuitions; 4. Inquiry and the method of science; 5. William James: contextualism and conservatism; 6. Dewey on inquiry; 7. The pragmatist maxim; Notes; Further reading; References; CHAPTER 9: WITTGENSTEIN ON KNOWLEDGE; 1. Epistemology in the later philosophy; 2. Wittgenstein's general views; 3. On Certainty; 4. The Moorean background; 5. Wittgenstein's criticisms of Moore 327 $a6. Wittgenstein's positive accountNotes; Further reading; References; CHAPTER 10: QUINE, GOLDMAN AND TWO WAYS OF NATURALIZING EPISTEMOLOGY; 1. Quine; 2. Goldman; 3. Other forms of naturalism in contemporary analytic epistemology; Further reading; References; CHAPTER 11: IN GETTIER'S WAKE; 1. Introduction; 2. Gettier cases and their structure; 3. Some proposed solutions to the Gettier problem; 4. The Scylla and Charybdis of post-Gettier epistemology: or, teetering between fallibilism and scepticism; Notes; Further reading; References; CHAPTER 12: EPISTEMOLOGY'S FUTURE HERE AND NOW 327 $a1. Looking to the future 330 $aExploring what great philosophers have written about the nature of knowledge and about how we know what we know, this is a concise and accessible introduction to the field of epistemology. Epistemology: The Key Thinkers tells the story of how epistemological thinking has developed over the centuries, through the work of the finest thinkers on the topic. Chapters by leading contemporary scholars guide readers through the ideas of key philosophers, beginning with Plato and Aristotle, through Descartes and the British empiricists, to such twentieth-century thinkers such as Wittgenstein, Quine, Go 410 0$aContinuum key thinkers. 606 $aKnowledge, Theory of$xHistory 606 $aPhilosophers$vBiography 615 0$aKnowledge, Theory of$xHistory. 615 0$aPhilosophers 676 $a121.09 701 $aHetherington$b Stephen Cade$0898999 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910779014103321 996 $aEpistemology$93838709 997 $aUNINA