Epistemic logic : a survey of the logic of knowledge / Nicholas Rescher.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rescher, Nicholas, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Epistemics.

Logic.

Knowledge, Theory of.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (153 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2005]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"Epistemic Logic examines the nature of knowledge, the conceptual ramifications of defining knowledge, and the reach and limits of what we know. As the branch of philosophy that formalizes the discourse on knowledge, epistemic logic seeks to articulate and clarify the general principles of reasoning about knowledge. Nicholas Rescher gives an overview of the discipline by setting out the general principles for reasoning about such matters as propositional knowledge and interrogative knowledge. Aimed at graduate students and specialists, it elucidates both Rescher's pragmatic view of knowledge and the field in general."--Jacket

Contents:

1. Setting the stage

2. Basic principles

3. Deductivity and knowledge ampliation

4. Metaknowledge

5. For aught that someone knows

6. Group knowledge

7. Propositional versus interrogative knowledge

8. Collective versus distributive knowledge and knower limitedness

9. Modality

10. Problems of epistemic democracy

11. Possibility and conceivability

12. Unknowability

13. Fitch's theorem and its consequences

14. Finite and infinite knowers

15. Vagrant predicates and noninstantiability

16. Unanswerable questions and insolubilia

17. Unknowable truth

18. Implications of cognitive limitation

App. 1. A survey of thesis acceptability.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 135-138) and index.

ISBN:

9780822970927

0822970929

OCLC:

887803157