Oxford Studies in Epistemology, Volume 1

Erscheinungsjahr 2005
ISBN: 978-0-19-928589-1
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 354 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 631 g

The first volume in a brand-new series
- No other regular publication devoted to epistemology

- The latest and best research in this core field of philosophy

- Edited by a duo of respected scholars and supervised by an international team of advisers

- Covers a very wide spectrum of topics

- All essays appear here for the first time

Contents

- 1 Alexander Bird: Abductive Knowledge and Holmesian Inference

- 2 James Cargile: The Fallacy of Epistemicism

- 3 Hartry Field: Recent Debates about the A Priori

- 4 Kit Fine: Our Knowledge of Mathematical Objects

- 5 Joseph Halpern: Sleeping Beauty Reconsidered: Conditioning and Reflection in Asynchronous Systems

- 6 Frank Keil: Doubt, Deference, and Deliberation: Understanding and Using the Division of Cognitive Labour

- 7 Tom Kelly: The Epistemic Significance of Disagreement

- 8 John MacFarlane: The Assessment Sensitivity of Knowledge Attributions

- 9 Jonathan Schaffer: Contrastive Knowledge

- 10 Stephen Schiffer: Paradox and the A Priori

- 11 Brian Weatherson: Scepticism, Rationalism, and Externalism

Zielgruppe

Scholars and students of philosophy.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gendler, Tamar Szabo

Hawthorne, John

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Wissenschaftstheorie, Wissenschaftsphilosophie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Wissenschaften: Theorie, Epistemologie, Methodik
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Erkenntnistheorie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie

Über Autor(innen)

Tamar Szabo Gendler, Cornell University, New York and John Hawthorne, Rutgers University, New Jersey

Contributors: Alexander Bird James Cargile Hartry Field Kit Fine Joseph Halpern Frank Keil Tom Kelly John MacFarlane Jonathan Schaffer Stephen Schiffer Brian Weatherson Links to web resources and related information