Knowledge and the state of nature : an essay in conceptual synthesis /

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This epistemological inquiry is directed at understanding the concept of knowledge. Its point of departure is that the standard philosophical project of analysing the concept of knowledge arbitrarily restricts the subject matter and is based on risky theoretical presuppositions.

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Essay in conceptual synthesis
Nature and motivation of project --
Doubts answered --
Plato, Pears, Hobbes, comparison with State-of-Nature Theory in Political Philosophy --
Evolutionary epistemology --
Derivation of first condition; the problem whether belief necessary --
Necessary and sufficient conditions an unsuitable format --
The prototypical case --
Need for third condition --
Discussion of the Nozick-Dretske analysis --
Why causal theory, tracking, reliabilism all good approximations --
Why justified true belief a good approximation --
Comparison with Grice --
Distinction between Informant and Source of Information; its nature and point --
Application to putative 'knowledge without belief' cases; and to comparativism: Goldman --
Being right by accident --
All analyses insufficient --
Blackburn: the Mirv/Pirv principle --
Local v. Global Reliabilism --
Discussion of McGinn --
Externalist and Internalist analyses --
The first-person case --
Knowing that one knows --
Insufficiency of the various analyses --
The 'No false lemma' principle --
Its rationale -- and its effect --
Objectivisation --
The 'cart before the horse' objection -- and the response --
Lotteries and multiple premises: the pull towards certainty --
Knowledge and natural laws --
Objectivisation and scepticism --
Unger's first account --
Two explanations of scepticism: the first-person approach, and the absolute perspective --
Knowledge and involvement --
What makes truth valuable? --
Testimony and the transmission of knowledge --
Welbourne: believing the speaker --
Other locutions: Knowing Fred.
1. Verfasser:
Craig, Edward
Format:
Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:
Englisch
Veröffentlicht:
Oxford : Clarendon, 1990.
Zusammenfassung:
This epistemological inquiry is directed at understanding the concept of knowledge. Its point of departure is that the standard philosophical project of analysing the concept of knowledge arbitrarily restricts the subject matter and is based on risky theoretical presuppositions.
Umfang:
1 online resource (x, 169 pages)
Anmerkungen:
English
Bibliografie:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
0-19-159723-6
0-19-823879-7
Schlagworte:
Knowledge, Theory of.
Language and languages > Philosophy.
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