Aspects of Knowing

Epistemological Essays

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Hardbound, 256 Pages
Published: MAY-2006
ISBN 10: 0-08-044979-4
ISBN 13: 978-0-08-044979-1
Imprint: ELSEVIER


Edited by
Stephen Hetherington, The University of South Wales, School of Philosophy, Sydney, Australia

Description
Acknowledgements Contributors 1. Introduction: The art of precise epistemology Stephen Hetherington Part A. Epistemology as scientific? 2. A problem about epistemic dependence Tim Oakley 3. Accounting for commitments: A priori knowledge, ontology, and logical entailments Michaelis Michael 4. Epistemic bootstrapping Peter Forrest 5. More praise for Moore’s proof Roger White 6. Lotteries and the Close Shave principle John Collins 7. Skepticism, self-knowledge, and responsibility David Macarthur 8. A reasonable contextualism (or, Austin reprised) A. B. Dickerson 9. Questioning contextualism Brian Weatherson Part B. Understanding knowledge? 10. Truthmaking and the Gettier problem Adrian Heathcote 11. Is knowing having the right to be sure? André Gallois 12. Knowledge by intention? On the possibility of agent’s knowledge Anne Newstead 13. Gettier’s theorem John Bigelow 14. Knowledge that works: A tale of two conceptual models Stephen Hetherington

Included in series
Perspectives on Cognitive Science

Audience:
Graduate students and researchers in the field of cognitive science


 
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