Thinking about knowing / Jay F. Rosenberg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rosenberg, Jay F., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Knowledge, Theory of.

Philosophy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 257 pages)

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Jay Rosenberg offers a systematic philosophical theory of knowledge which is specifically responsive to the fact that we always engage the world from a particular perspective within it. It consequently calls into question in a fundamental way many received understandings regarding the relationships among the concepts of knowledge, belief, justification, and truth.Thinking about Knowing's leading thesis is that we correctly ascribe knowledge to those whom, from our de facto epistemic perspective, we judge able adequately to justify the corresponding belief. Since from any one epistemic perspect

Contents:

1. The Myth of Cartesian Scepticism: Dreaming, Doubts, and Epistemic Closure; 2. The Myth of Cartesian Certainty: Epoché and Inner Sense; 3. Immediate Knowledge: The New Dialectic of Givenness; 4. Everyday Knowledge: When does S know that p?; 5. Certitude Sustained: Portrait of G. E. Moore as a Perspectivalist; 6. Peircean Enquiry: Knowledge without Truth.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [249]-254) and index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-281-93046-6

9786611930462

0-19-153070-0

OCLC:

302365338