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Title Knowledge and skepticism / edited by Joseph Keim Campbell, Michael O'Rourke, and Harry S. Silverstein
Published Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2010
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Description 1 online resource (viii, 367 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color)
Series Topics in contemporary philosophy
Topics in contemporary philosophy.
Contents I Knowledge -- 1 Knowledge and Conclusive Evidence -- 2 Theorizing Justification -- 3 Truth Tracking and the Problem of Reflective Knowledge -- 4 Contextualism, Skepticism, and Warranted Assertibility Maneuvers -- 5 Knowledge In and Out of Context -- 6 Contextualism in Epistemology and the Context-Sensitivity of 'Knows' -- 7 Locke's Account of Sensitive Knowledge -- 8 Revelations: On What Is Manifest in Visual Experience -- 8 Knowing Hurts -- 10 Reasoning Defeasibily about Probabilities -- II Skepticism -- 11 Anti-Individualism, Self-Knowledge, and Why Skepticism Cannot Be Cartesian -- 12 Is There a Reason for Skepticism? -- 13 Skepticism Aside -- 14 Hume's Skeptical Naturalism
Summary There are two main questions in epistemology: What is knowledge? And: Do we have any of it? The first question asks after the nature of a concept; the second involves grappling with the skeptic, who believes that no one knows anything. This collection of original essays addresses the themes of knowledge and skepticism, offering both contemporary epistemological analysis and historical perspectives from leading philosophers and rising scholars. Contributors first consider knowledge: the intrinsic nature of knowledge in particular, aspects of what distinguishes knowledge from true belief; the extrinsic examination of knowledge, focusing on contextualist accounts; and types of knowledge, specifically perceptual, introspective, and rational knowledge. The final chapters offer various perspectives on skepticism. Knowledge and Skepticism provides an eclectic yet coherent set of essays by distinguished scholars and important new voices. The cutting-edge nature of its contributions and its interdisciplinary character make it a valuable resource for a wide audience, for philosophers of language as well as for epistemologists, and for psychologists, decision theorists, historians, and students at both the advanced undergraduate and graduate levels
Analysis PHILOSOPHY/General
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Knowledge, Theory of -- Congresses
Skepticism -- Congresses
PHILOSOPHY -- Epistemology.
Knowledge, Theory of
Skepticism
Genre/Form Electronic books
proceedings (reports)
Conference papers and proceedings
Conference papers and proceedings.
Actes de congrès.
Form Electronic book
Author Campbell, Joseph Keim, 1958-
O'Rourke, Michael, 1963-
Silverstein, Harry, 1942-
Inland Northwest Philosophy Conference (7th : 2004 : Pullman, Wash.; Moscow, Idaho)
ISBN 9780262265782
0262265788
1282638173
9781282638174
9786612638176
6612638176