Epistemology Futures

Erscheinungsjahr 2006
ISBN: 978-0-19-927331-7
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 252 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 552 g

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 us as potential knowers? What _ does not? The nature and special significance of inquiry, of normative virtues, of understanding, and of disagreement are elucidated, all with an eye on sharpening epistemology's _ future focus. There is definite insight and potential _ foresight. How might real epistemological progress occur in the future? Epistemology Futures offers some intriguing clues.

Zielgruppe

Scholars and students of philosophy

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hetherington, Stephen

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Wissenschaftstheorie, Wissenschaftsphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Erkenntnistheorie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Philosophie des Geistes, Neurophilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Wissenschaften: Theorie, Epistemologie, Methodik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- 1: Stephen Hetherington: Introduction: epistemological progress

- 2: Hilary Kornblith: Appeals to intuition and the ambitions of epistemology

- 3: Jonathan M. Weinberg: What's epistemology for? The case for neopragmatism in normative metaepistemology

- 4: Paul M. Churchland: Inner spaces and outer spaces: the new epistemology

- 5: Stephen Hetherington: How to know (that knowledge-that is knowledge-how)

- 6: Christopher Hookway: Epistemology and inquiry: the primacy of practice

- 7: Adam Morton: Knowing what to think about: when epistemology meets the theory of choice

- 8: Linda Zagzebski: Ideal agents and ideal observers in epistemology

- 9: William G. Lycan: On the Gettier Problem problem

- 10: A. C. Grayling: Epistemic finitude and the framework of inference

- 11: Mark Kaplan: If you know, you can't be wrong

- 12: Catherine Z. Elgin: From knowledge to understanding

- 13: Richard Feldman: Epistemological puzzles about disagreement

Über Autor(innen)

Edited by Stephen Hetherington, University of New South Wales

Contributors: Paul M. Churchland Catherine Z. Elgin Richard Feldman A. C. Grayling Stephen Hetherington Christopher Hookway Hilary Kornblith Mark Kaplan William G. Lycan Adam Morton Jonathan M. Weinberg Linda Zagzebski