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Epistemology : the key thinkers / edited by Stephen Hetherington.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Continuum key thinkersPublisher: London : Continuum International Publishers, 2012Description: 1 online resource (vi, 265 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781441117830
  • 1441117830
  • 1280577797
  • 9781280577796
  • 9781441194350
  • 1441194355
  • 9781441103451
  • 1441103457
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version :: Epistemology.DDC classification:
  • 121.09 23
LOC classification:
  • BD161.E64 2012 14340
Online resources:
Contents:
Epistemology's past here and now / Stephen Hetherington -- Plato's epistemology / Nicholas D. Smith -- Aristotle on knowledge / Robert Bolton, Alan Code -- Ancient skepticism / Gisela Striker -- The epistemology of Descartes / Desmond M. Clarke -- Locke, Berkeley, Hume: Epistemology / P.J.E. Kail -- Kant and Kantian epistemology / Melissa McBay Merritt, Markos Valaris -- American pragmatism: Fallibilism and cognitive progress / Christopher Hookway -- Wittgenstein on knowledge / Paul Snowdon -- Quine, Goldman and two ways of naturalizing epistemology / Ram Neta -- In Gettier's wake / John Turri -- Epistemology's future here and now / Stephen Hetherington.
Summary: Exploring what great philosophers have written about the nature of knowledge and about how we know what we know, this is a concise and accessible introduction to the field of epistemology. Epistemology: The Key Thinkers tells the story of how epistemological thinking has developed over the centuries, through the work of the finest thinkers on the topic. Chapters by leading contemporary scholars guide readers through the ideas of key philosophers, beginning with Plato and Aristotle, through Descartes and the British empiricists, to such twentieth-century thinkers such as Wittgenstein, Quine, Goldman, and beyond. -- Provided by publisher
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Epistemology's past here and now / Stephen Hetherington -- Plato's epistemology / Nicholas D. Smith -- Aristotle on knowledge / Robert Bolton, Alan Code -- Ancient skepticism / Gisela Striker -- The epistemology of Descartes / Desmond M. Clarke -- Locke, Berkeley, Hume: Epistemology / P.J.E. Kail -- Kant and Kantian epistemology / Melissa McBay Merritt, Markos Valaris -- American pragmatism: Fallibilism and cognitive progress / Christopher Hookway -- Wittgenstein on knowledge / Paul Snowdon -- Quine, Goldman and two ways of naturalizing epistemology / Ram Neta -- In Gettier's wake / John Turri -- Epistemology's future here and now / Stephen Hetherington.

Exploring what great philosophers have written about the nature of knowledge and about how we know what we know, this is a concise and accessible introduction to the field of epistemology. Epistemology: The Key Thinkers tells the story of how epistemological thinking has developed over the centuries, through the work of the finest thinkers on the topic. Chapters by leading contemporary scholars guide readers through the ideas of key philosophers, beginning with Plato and Aristotle, through Descartes and the British empiricists, to such twentieth-century thinkers such as Wittgenstein, Quine, Goldman, and beyond. -- Provided by publisher

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