The metaphysics of knowledge / Keith Hossack.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hossack, Keith, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Knowledge, Theory of.

Metaphysics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 309 pages)

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Metaphysics of Knowledge presents the thesis that knowledge is an absolutely fundamental relation, with an indispensable role to play in metaphysics, philosophical logic, and philosophy of mind and language.Knowledge has been generally assumed to be a propositional attitude like belief. But Keith Hossack argues that knowledge is not a relation to a content; rather, it a relation to a fact. This point of view allows us to explain many of the concepts of philosophical logic in terms of knowledge. Hossack provides a theory of facts as structured combinations of particulars and universals, and

Contents:

'S knows that A'

Facts

Concept and content

Necessity

Consciousness

Persons

Language

The constitutive thesis and the casual thesis.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [298]-303) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-964595-7

1-281-14897-0

9786611148973

0-19-152575-8

1-4356-2127-1

OCLC:

742333451