After certainty : a history of our epistemic ideals and illusions / Robert Pasnau.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pasnau, Robert, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Certainty.

Knowledge, Theory of.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

History of our epistemic ideals and illusions

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2017.

Summary:

'After Certainty' offers a reconstruction of the history of epistemology, understood as a series of changing expectations about the cognitive ideal that we might hope to achieve in this world. Pasnau ranges widely over philosophy from Aristotle to the 17th century, and examines in some detail the rise of science as an autonomous discipline.

Contents:

Lecture One: The epistemic ideal

Lecture Two: Evident certainties

Lecture Three: The sensory domain

Lecture Four: Ideas and illusions

Lecture Five: The privileged now

Lecture Six: Deception and hope.

Notes:

This edition previously issued in print: 2017.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on November 9, 2017).

ISBN:

0-19-184037-8