Knowledge and its Limits

Erscheinungsjahr 2000
ISBN: 978-0-19-825043-2
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 352 Seiten, Format (B × H): 162 mm x 242 mm

Knowledge and its Limits presents a systematic new conception of knowledge as a fundamental kind of mental stage sensitive to the knower's environment. It makes a major contribution to the debate between externalist and internalist philosophies of mind, and breaks radically with the epistemological tradition of analysing knowledge in terms of true belief. The theory casts light on a wide variety of philosophical issues: the problem of scepticism, the nature
of evidence, probability and assertion, the dispute between realism and anti-realism and the paradox of the surprise examination. Williamson relates the new conception to structural limits on knowledge which imply that what can be known never exhausts what is true. The arguments are illustrated by rigorous
models based on epistemic logic and probability theory. The result is a new way of doing epistemology for the twenty-first-century.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Williamson, Timothy

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Wissenschaftstheorie, Wissenschaftsphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Metaphysik, Ontologie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Wissenschaften: Theorie, Epistemologie, Methodik
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Erkenntnistheorie

Über Autor(innen)

Timothy Williamson is the Wykeham Professor of Logic at the University of Oxford. He was formerly Professor of Philosophy at Edinburgh University.