Guide Through the Theory of Knowledge

Name: Guide Through the Theory of Knowledge
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ISBN: 9781405100120

ISBN-10: 1405100125

ISBN-13: 9781405100120

Edition: 3rd 2003 (Revised)

Authors: Adam Morton

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Adam Morton's highly-acclaimed text covers historically important themes as well as current issues and debates. This new edition includes an entirely new chapter on externalism and epistemic virtues.

Book details

List price: $44.95
Edition: 3rd
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
Publication date: 10/22/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 208
Size: 6.02" wide x 9.05" long x 0.62" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English



Foreword for Students



Beliefs And Their Qualities


Defending and Attacking Beliefs


Epistemic Ideals


The Basic Concepts


The Basic Questions of The Theory Of Knowledge


Two Extreme Views



Perception


The Issues


The Concepts


Empiricism


Some Experiments


Evidence Without Certainty


What is Special About Perception?



Apriori Beliefs


Knowledge Just By Thinking


Apriori, Analytic, Necessary


Kant on the Synthetic Apriori


Quine on the Analytic/Synthetic Distinction


Conceptual Truths


The Uses of Reasoning



Inductive Reasoning


Simple Induction


Hume's Problem


Goodman's Problem


Sampling


Solutions to Goodman's Problem


Justifying Induction


The Safeness of Induction


IBE


Safeness Reconsidered



Middleword: Fallibilism


Error versus Ignorance


Foundationalism versus Holism


Fallibilisms


How the Web Changes



Defining Knowledge


Top-grade Belief


Lehrer's Principle


Reliability: The Case of the Ancient Mariner


Missing Information


Knowledge and Trust



Externalism and Epistemic Virtues


The Escape from Justification


Externalism


Cousins of Knowledge


Skepticism and Knowing that You Know


Virtues


The Externalist Attitude



Knowledge Of Minds


Psychological Beliefs


Self-centered Theories


Behavioral Theories


Folk Psychology


Materialist Theories


Errors of Self-attribution


Dispositions, Occurrences, and Reliability


Conclusion: The Indispensability of Psychology



Moral Knowledge


Knowing Right from Wrong


Thick and Thin Moral Beliefs


Analogies: Color, Humor, and Witches


Cognitivsm


Knowing What You Know



Bayesian And Naturalist Theories


Why Probability?


A Guide Through The Theory Of Probability


The Bayesian Picture of Evidence


Objections to Bayesianism


Background Beliefs


Rationality Naturalized


Bayesianism vs



Afterword: Some Future Epistemology


Definitions


Appendix for Teachers


Index