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What is this thing called Knowledge? 3rd New edition [Minkštas viršelis]

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(University of Edinburgh, UK)
  • Formatas: Paperback / softback, 220 pages, aukštis x plotis: 246x174 mm, weight: 408 g
  • Išleidimo metai: 10-Sep-2013
  • Leidėjas: Routledge
  • ISBN-10: 0415657067
  • ISBN-13: 9780415657068
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  • Formatas: Paperback / softback, 220 pages, aukštis x plotis: 246x174 mm, weight: 408 g
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  • ISBN-13: 9780415657068
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What is knowledge? Where does it come from? What kinds of knowledge are there? Can we know anything at all?









This lucid and engaging introduction grapples with these central questions in the theory of knowledge, offering a clear, non-partisan view of the main themes of epistemology. Both traditional issues and contemporary ideas are discussed in sixteen easily digestible chapters, each of which conclude with a useful summary of the main ideas discussed, study questions, annotated further reading and a guide to internet resources.









Each chapter also features text boxes providing bite-sized summaries of key concepts and major philosophers, and clear and interesting examples are used throughout. The book concludes with an annotated guide to general introductions to epistemology, a glossary of key terms, and a summary of the main examples used in epistemology, This an ideal first textbook in the theory of knowledge for undergraduates coming to philosophy for the first time.









The third edition has been revised and updated throughout and features two new chapters, on religious knowledge and scientific knowledge, as part of a whole new section on what kinds of knowledge there are. In addition, the text as a whole has been refreshed to keep it up to date with current developments.

Recenzijos

"This third edition of What is this thing called Knowledge? is the best single-author introduction to epistemology on the market. Written by one of our very best epistemologists, it is ideal for students who might never before have encountered the subject." - Tim Black, California State University, Northridge, USA



"A highly accessible and up-to-date introduction to philosophical questions about knowledge, written by one of the worlds leading epistemologists. It will give beginners a clear and wide-ranging overview of this central area of philosophy, as well as valuable guidance for further reading." - Conor McHugh, University of Southampton, UK



"Accessible, clearly written, wide-ranging, informed by the very latest scholarship, and replete with a considerable pedagogical apparatus, this updated edition of What Is This Thing Called Knowledge? is an exceptional introduction to the field." - John Turri, University of Waterloo, Canada



"What is this thing called Knowledge? has established itself as one of the leading texts in epistemology, combining exemplary simplicity of style with a detailed approach to the main issues. This new edition combines breadth, scope and clarity." - Pascal Engel, University of Geneva, Switzerland

Preface to the third edition xi
How to use this book xii
PART I WHAT IS KNOWLEDGE?
1(66)
1 Some preliminaries
3(7)
Types of Knowledge
3(1)
Two Basic Requirements on Knowledge: Truth and Belief
4(1)
Knowing Versus Merely `Getting It Right'
5(2)
A Brief Remark on Truth
7(3)
2 The value of knowledge
10(10)
Why Care About Knowledge?
10(1)
The Instrumental Value of True Belief
10(2)
The Value of Knowledge
12(2)
The Statues of Daedalus
14(1)
Is Some Knowledge Non-Instrumentally Valuable?
15(5)
3 Defining knowledge
20(11)
The Problem of the Criterion
20(1)
Methodism and Particularism
21(2)
Knowledge as Justified True Belief
23(1)
Gettier Cases
23(3)
Responding to the Gettier Cases
26(2)
Back to the Problem of the Criterion
28(3)
4 The structure of knowledge
31(11)
Knowledge and Justification
31(1)
The Enigmatic Nature of Justification
31(2)
Agrippa's Trilemma
33(1)
Infinitism
34(1)
Coherentism
35(1)
Foundationalism
36(6)
5 Rationality
42(13)
Rationality, Justification, and Knowledge
42(1)
Epistemic Rationality and the Goal of Truth
43(2)
The Goal(s) of Epistemic Rationality
45(1)
The (Un)Importance of Epistemic Rationality
46(1)
Rationality and Responsibility
47(2)
Epistemic Internalism/Externalism
49(6)
6 Virtues and faculties
55(12)
Reliabilism
55(1)
A `Gettier' Problem for Reliabilism
56(1)
Virtue Epistemology
57(3)
Virtue Epistemology and the Externalism/Internalism Distinction
60(7)
PART II WHERE DOES KNOWLEDGE COME FROM?
67(46)
7 Perception
69(11)
The Problem of Perceptual Knowledge
69(2)
Indirect Realism
71(2)
Idealism
73(1)
Transcendental Idealism
74(2)
Direct Realism
76(4)
8 Testimony and memory
80(11)
The Problem of Testimonial Knowledge
80(2)
Reductionism
82(2)
Credulism
84(2)
The Problem of Memorial Knowledge
86(5)
9 A priority and inference
91(10)
A Priori and Empirical Knowledge
91(1)
The Interdependence of a Priori and Empirical Knowledge
92(1)
Introspective Knowledge
93(1)
Deduction
94(1)
Induction
95(1)
Abduction
96(5)
10 The problem of induction
101(12)
The Problem of Induction
101(2)
Responding to the Problem of Induction
103(1)
Living with the Problem of Induction I: Falsification
103(4)
Living with the Problem of Induction II: Pragmatism
107(6)
PART III WHAT KINDS OF KNOWLEDGE ARE THERE?
113(46)
11 Scientific knowledge
115(14)
What is Science?
115(2)
Science Versus Pseudo-Science
117(6)
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
123(2)
Concluding Remarks
125(4)
12 Religious knowledge
129(15)
Is There Any Religious Knowledge?
129(1)
The Evidentialist Challenge to Religious Knowledge
130(1)
Natural Theology
131(4)
Fideism
135(1)
Reformed Epistemology
136(8)
13 Moral knowledge
144(15)
The Problem of Moral Knowledge
144(1)
Scepticism About Moral Facts
144(4)
Scepticism About Moral Knowledge
148(2)
The Nature of Moral Knowledge I: Classical Foundationalism
150(2)
The Nature of Moral Knowledge II: Alternative Conceptions
152(7)
PART IV DO WE KNOW ANYTHING AT ALL?
159(32)
14 Scepticism about other minds
161(8)
The Problem of Other Minds
161(1)
The Argument from Analogy
162(1)
A Problem for the Argument from Analogy
163(1)
Two Versions of the Problem of Other Minds
164(2)
Perceiving Someone Else's Mind
166(3)
15 Radical scepticism
169(14)
The Radical Sceptical Paradox
169(3)
Scepticism and Closure
172(2)
Mooreanism
174(3)
Contextualism
177(6)
16 Truth and objectivity
183(8)
Objectivity, Anti-Realism, and Scepticism
183(1)
Truth as the Goal of Inquiry
184(2)
Authenticity and the Value of Truth
186(1)
Relativism
187(4)
General further reading 191(4)
Glossary of terms 195(16)
Glossary of key examples 211(3)
Index 214
Duncan Pritchard FRSE is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh, UK. His main research area is epistemology, and he has published widely in this field, including the books Epistemic Luck (2005), Knowledge (2009), The Nature and Value of Knowledge (with A. Millar & A. Haddock, 2010), and Epistemological Disjunctivism (2012). In 2007 he was awarded a Phillip Leverhulme Prize for his research. In 2011 he was elected to a Fellowship of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.