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Epistemology / Richard Feldman.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Feldman, Richard, 1948-
- Series:
- Prentice-Hall foundations of philosophy series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Knowledge, Theory of.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 197 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Prentice Hall, [2003]
- Summary:
- Sophisticated yet accessible and easy to read, this introduction to contemporary philosophical questions about knowledge and rationality goes "beyond" the usual bland survey of the major current views to show that there "is" argument involved. Throughout, the author provides a fair and balanced blending of the standard positions on epistemology with his own carefully reasoned positions or stances into the analysis of each concept. Epistemological Questions. The Traditional Analysis of Knowledge. Modifying the Traditional Analysis of Knowledge. Evidentialist Theories of Justification. Non-evidentialist Theories of Knowledge and Justification. Skepticism. Epistemology and Science. Relativism. For anyone interested in the philosophy of knowledge and rationality.
- Contents:
- Ch. 1. Epistemological questions
- The standard view
- Developing the standard view
- Challenges to the standard view
- Ch. 2. The traditional analysis of knowledge
- Kinds of knowledge
- Knowledge and true belief
- The traditional analysis of knowledge
- Real knowledge and apparent knowledge
- Conclusion
- Ch. 3. Modifying the traditional of analysis of knowledge
- An objection to the traditional analysis
- Defending the traditional analysis
- Modifying the traditional analysis
- Ch. 4. Evidentialist theories of knowledge and justification
- Evidentialism
- The infinite regress argument
- Cartesian foundationalism
- Coherentism
- Modest foundationalism
- Ch. 5. Nonevidentialist theories of knowledge and justification
- The causal theory
- Truth tracking
- Reliabilism
- Proper function
- Conclusions
- Ch. 6. Skepticism (I)
- Varieties of skepticism
- What skeptics claim
- Four arguments for skepticism
- Responding to skepticism
- Interim conclusion
- Ch. 7. Skepticism (II)
- The problem of induction
- Ordinary-standards skepticism and best explanations
- Appendix: Contextualism
- Ch. 8. Epistemology and science
- Evidence of human irrationality
- Naturalistic epistemology
- Ch. 9. Epistemological relativism
- Uncontroversial forms of relativism
- Serious relativism
- Reasonable disagreements
- Ch. 10. Conclusion
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0133416453
- 9780133416459
- OCLC:
- 50960890
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