Skip to content

Epistemology Futures

Best in textbook rentals since 2012!

ISBN-10: 0199273324

ISBN-13: 9780199273324

Edition: 2006

Authors: Stephen Hetherington

List price: $61.00
Blue ribbon 30 day, 100% satisfaction guarantee!
what's this?
Rush Rewards U
Members Receive:
Carrot Coin icon
XP icon
You have reached 400 XP and carrot coins. That is the daily max!

Description:

How might epistemology build upon its past and present, so as to be better in the future? Epistemology Futures takes bold steps towards answering that question. What methods will best serve epistemology? Which phenomena and concepts deserve more attention from it? Are there approaches and assumptions that have impeded its progress until now? This volume contains provocative essays by prominent epistemologists, presenting many new ideas for possible improvements in how to do epistemology. Doubt is cast upon the powers of conceptual analysis and of epistemological intuition. Surprising aspects of knowledge are noticed. What is it? What is it not? Scepticism's limits are traced. What threatens…    
Customers also bought

Book details

List price: $61.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 5/4/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 252
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.21" long x 0.67" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English

Introduction: epistemological progress
Appeals to intuition and the ambitions of epistemology
What's epistemology for? The case for neopragmatism in normative metaepistemology
Inner spaces and outer spaces: the new epistemology
How to know (that knowledge-that is knowledge-how)
Epistemology and inquiry: the primacy of practice
Knowing what to think about: when epistemology meets the theory of choice
Ideal agents and ideal observers in epistemology
On the Gettier Problem problem
Epistemic finitude and the framework of inference
If you know, you can't be wrong
From knowledge to understanding
Epistemological puzzles about disagreement