Knowing our limits / Nathan Ballantyne.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ballantyne, Nathan, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Knowledge, Theory of.

Certainty.

Objectivity.

Prejudices.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 326 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2019.

Summary:

In our age of partisan confidence and polarized punditry, Knowing Our Limits examines an urgent question: how much do we know about controversial issues over which intelligent people think differently? The book provides the tools we need to think circumspectly about our controversial opinions. The author updates a classical tradition of reasonable doubt and skepticism that includes Socrates, Montaigne, and Bertrand Russell, blending philosophical analysis with current ideas from the social and cognitive sciences.

Contents:

Epistemology and inquiry

Regulative epistemology in the seventeenth century

How do epistemic principles guide?

How to know our limits

Disagreement and debunking

Counterfactual interlocutors

Unpossessed evidence

Epistemic trespassing

Novices and expert disagreement

Self-defeat?

The end of inquiry.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2019.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on August 1, 2019).

Other Format:

Print version: 0-19-084728-X

ISBN:

0-19-084729-8

0-19-084730-1

0-19-084731-X