Epistemology of ordinary knowledge / edited by Mariano L. Bianca and Paolo Piccari.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bianca, Mariano L., editor.

Piccari, Paolo, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Knowledge, Theory of.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (326 p.)

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015.

Summary:

Many philosophers reduce ordinary knowledge to sensory or, more generally, to perceptual knowledge, which refers to entities belonging to the phenomenic world. However, ordinary knowledge is not only the result of sensory-perceptual processes, but also of non-perceptual (noetic) contents that are present in any mind. From an epistemological point of view, ordinary knowledge is a form of knowledge that not only allows epistemic access to the world, but also enables the formulation of models of it with different degrees of reliability. Usually epistemologists focus their attention on scientific

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed June 17, 2016).

ISBN:

1-4438-8627-0

OCLC:

930993558