Scepticism and reliable belief / Jose L. Zalabardo.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zalabardo, José L., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Knowledge, Theory of.

Skepticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 215 pages )

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

José L. Zalabardo assesses the main arguments against the possibility of knowledge, and challenges their consensus. He articulates and defends a reliabilist theory of knowledge that belongs firmly in the truth-tracking tradition.

Contents:

""1. The Problem of Scepticism""; ""1.1 Sceptical arguments""; ""1.2 The epistemic regress argument""; ""1.3 Sceptical possibilities""; ""1.4 The criterion""; ""2. Reliabilism and the Evidential Constraint""; ""2.1 Intuitions""; ""2.2 Perfect pitch""; ""2.3 BonJour and the intuitive approach""; ""2.4 Epistemic rationality and responsibility""; ""2.5 Premise 1""; ""2.6 Premise 2""; ""2.7 Two further arguments""; ""3. Knowledge and Truth Tracking""; ""3.1 Nozick�s analysis of knowledge""; ""3.2 Adherence""; ""3.3 Nozick�s defence of adherence""

""3.4 Methods""; ""3.5 Evidence""; ""3.6 Conclusion""; ""4. Evidence""; ""4.1 Probability""; ""4.2 Conditional probability""; ""4.3 Evidence and probability""; ""4.4 Incremental confirmation""; ""4.5 What adequate evidence is""; ""5. Inferential Knowledge""; ""5.1 Foundationalism""; ""5.2 Gettier""; ""5.3 Moorean inferences""; ""5.4 Transmission principles""; ""5.5 An idea from Nozick""; ""5.6 Closure and transmission""; ""5.7 Reflective knowledge""; ""5.8 Not falsely believing""; ""5.9 Bootstrapping""; ""5.10 Roush on inferential knowledge""; ""6. Knowledge without Evidence""

""6.1 Tracking and probability""; ""6.2 Probabilistic tracking""; ""6.3 Safety""; ""6.4 Inferential and non-inferential knowledge""; ""6.5 Problem cases I: positive misclassifications?""; ""6.6 Problem cases II: negative misclassifications?""; ""6.7 Adherence""; ""6.8 Knowledge by default""; ""6.9 Closure""; ""7. Sceptical Arguments""; ""7.1 The regress argument""; ""7.2 Sceptical hypotheses""; ""7.3 The criterion""; ""7.4 Reflective knowledge""; ""7.5 Evidence for cognitive self-assessments""; ""7.6 Using S�s evidence in support of assessments of her beliefs""; ""7.7 Evidence for CSAs""

""7.8 The sceptical argument""; ""8. Scepticism and Realism""; ""8.1 The anti-realist conception""; ""8.2 Realism and cognition""; ""8.3 Anti-realism""; ""8.4 Anti-reductionism""; ""8.5 Stability""; ""8.6 Anti-realist reductions and the sceptical problem""; ""8.7 The middle position""; ""8.8 Two conceptions of cognitive assessment""; ""8.9 The middle position and the sceptical problem"".

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on Aug. 24, 2012).

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-280-99886-5

9786613770479

0-19-162954-5

OCLC:

801954479