The foundations of knowing / Roderick M. Chisholm.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chisholm, Roderick M.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Knowledge, Theory of.

Philosophy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 216 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c1982.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Foundations of Knowing was first published in 1982. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. This collection of essays on the foundations of empirical knowledge brings together ten of Roderick M. Chisholm's most important papers in epistemology, three of them published for the first time, the others significantly revised and expanded for this edition.

Contents:

Contents; Introduction; Part I; 1 A Version of Foundationalism; 2 Confirmation and Concurrence; 3 Knowledge as Justified True Belief; 4 Knowing That One Knows; Part II; 5 The Problem of the Criterion; 6 The Foundation of Empirical Statements; 7 Verstehen: The Epistemological Question; 8 What is a Transcendental Argument?; 9 The Paradox of Analysis: A Solution (with Richard Potter); Part III; 10 Theory of Knowledge in America; Notes; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8166-5556-1

0-8166-1104-1

OCLC:

182732668