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The appearance of ignorance. Volume 2 : knowledge, skepticism, and context / Keith DeRose.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- DeRose, Keith, 1962- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ignorance (Theory of knowledge).
- Skepticism.
- Knowledge, Theory of.
- Contextualism (Philosophy).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xv, 303 pages) : illustrations
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Other Title:
- Knowledge, skepticism, and context
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2017]
- Summary:
- Keith DeRose presents, develops, and defends original solutions to two of the stickiest problems in epistemology: skeptical hypotheses and the lottery problem. He deploys a powerful version of contextualism, the view that the epistemic standards for the attribution of knowledge vary with context.
- Contents:
- Solving the skeptical problem
- Moorean methodology: was the skeptic doomed to inevitable defeat?
- Two substantively Moorean responses and the project of refuting skepticism
- Contextualism and skepticism: the defeat of the bold skeptic
- Lotteries, insensitivity, and a closure
- Insensitivity
- How do we know that we're not brains in vats? Toward a picture of knowledge.
- Notes:
- This edition previously issued in print: 2018.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-253591-9
- 0-19-184602-3
- 0-19-253590-0
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