Epistemology from a Realistic Standpoint
Buch, Englisch, 254 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 394 g
ISBN: 978-90-247-1890-0
Verlag: Springer Netherlands
The acquisition of knowledge is not a single unrelated occasion but rather an adaptive process in which past acquisitions modify present and future ones. In Part I of this essay in epistemology it is argued that coping with knowledge is not a passive affair but dynamic and active, involving its continuance into the stages of assimilation and deployment. In Part II a number of specific issues are raised and discussed in order to explore the dimensions and the depths of the workings of adaptive knowing. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS "Activity as A Source of Knowledge" first appeared in Tulane Studies in Philosophy, XII, 1963; "Knowing, Doing and Being" in Ratio, VI, 1964; "On Beliefs and Believing" in Tulane Studies, XV, 1966; "Absent Objects" in Tulane Studies, XVII, 1968; "The Reality Game" in Tulane Studies, XVIII, 1969; "Adaptive Responses and The Ecosys tem" in Tulane Studies, XVIII, 1969; "The Mind-Body Problem" in the Philosophical Journal, VII, 1970; and "The Knowledge of The Known" in the International Logic Review, I, 1970. PART I COPING WITH KNOWLEDGE CHAPTER I THE PROBLEM OF KNOWLEDGE I. THE CHOSEN APPROACH You are about to read a study of epistemology, one which has been made from a realistic standpoint. It is not the first of such interpre tations, and it will not be the last.
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I: Coping with Knowledge.- I. The Problem of Knowledge.- II. The Acquisition of Knowledge.- III. The Assimilation of Knowledge.- IV. The Deployment of Knowledge.- II: Specific Issues.- V. Knowing, Doing and Being.- VI. Absent Objects.- VII. The Mind-Body Problem.- VIII. The Knowledge of the Known.- IX. The Subjectivity of a Realist.- X. Activity as a Source of Knowledge.- XI. On Beliefs and Believing.- XII. Adaptive Responses and the Ecosystem.- XIII. The Reality Game.
