Epistemology futures / / edited by Stephen Hetherington

• Pubblicazione: Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2006
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (252 p.)
• Disciplina: 121
• Soggetto topico: Knowledge, Theory of
• Altri autori: HetheringtonStephen Cade
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Notes on the Contributors; 1. Introduction: Epistemological Progress; 2. Appeals to Intuition and the Ambitions of Epistemology; 3. What's Epistemology for? The Case for Neopragmatism in Normative Metaepistemology; 4. Inner Spaces and Outer Spaces: the New Epistemology; 5. How to Know (that Knowledge-that is Knowledge-how); 6. Epistemology and Inquiry: the Primacy of Practice; 7. Knowing What to Think about: when Epistemology Meets the Theory of Choice; 8. Ideal Agents and Ideal Observers in Epistemology; 9. On the Gettier Problem problem ; 10. Epistemic Finitude and the Framework of Inference11. If You Know, You Can't be Wrong; 12. From Knowledge to Understanding; 13. Epistemological Puzzles about Disagreement; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: How might epistemology build upon its past and present, so as to be better in the future? Epistemology Futures takes bold steps towards answering that question. What methods will best serve epistemology? Which phenomena and concepts deserve more attention from it? Are there approaches and assumptions that have impeded its progress until now? This volume contains provocative essays by prominent epistemologists, presenting many new ideas for possible improvements in how to do. epistemology. Contributors. Paul M. Churchland, Catherine Z. Elgin, Richard Feldman, A. C. Grayling, Stephen Hetheringto
• Titolo autorizzato: Epistemology futures
• ISBN: 1-280-90571-9; 0-19-153422-6; 1-4294-9294-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910815799303321
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