Contemporary Theories of Knowledge
Rowman & Littlefield (Verlag)
978-0-8476-7452-7 (ISBN)
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Designed as a text for advanced philosophy students, this book introduces the reader to the fundamental issues and approaches in the field of epistemology. The author provides a critical survey and assessment of all major competing theories of knowledge - foundations theories, coherence theories, direct realism, reliabilism and probabilism. Pollock clarifies the dinstinguishing features of each theory and analyzes the arguments supporting or refuting them. He makes a strong case for a particular theory - the nondoxastic internalist theory of direct realism - as the most logically defensible.
Part 1 The problems of knowledge: skeptical problems; knowledge and justification; areas of knowledge; theories of knowledge. Part 2 Foundations theories: motivation; basic beliefs; epistemic ascent; reasoning and memory; reconsideration of epistemologically basic beliefs. Part 3 Coheremce theories: motivation a taxonomy of coherence theories; nondoxastic theories and direct realism. Part 4 Externalism: motivation; varities of probability; probabilism; reliabilism. Part 5 Epistemic norms: recapitulation; epistemic norms; how do epistemic norms regulate?; the refutation of externalism; man as a cognitive machine; a naturalistic internalism; direct realism. Appendix: The Getting problem - objective epistemic justification, social aspects of knowledge.
| Zusatzinfo | bibliography |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | Lanham, MD |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Gewicht | 595 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Erkenntnistheorie / Wissenschaftstheorie |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-8476-7452-5 / 0847674525 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-8476-7452-7 / 9780847674527 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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