Epistemology : the key thinkers /

Exploring what great philosophers have written about the nature of knowledge and about how we know what we know, this is a concise and accessible introduction to the field of epistemology. Epistemology: The Key Thinkers tells the story of how epistemological thinking has developed over the centuries...

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Online Access: Full text (MCPHS users only)
Other Authors: Hetherington, Stephen Cade (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Continuum International Publishers, 2012
Series:Continuum key thinkers.
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Table of Contents:
  • Epistemology's past here and now / Stephen Hetherington
  • Plato's epistemology / Nicholas D. Smith
  • Aristotle on knowledge / Robert Bolton, Alan Code
  • Ancient skepticism / Gisela Striker
  • The epistemology of Descartes / Desmond M. Clarke
  • Locke, Berkeley, Hume: Epistemology / P.J.E. Kail
  • Kant and Kantian epistemology / Melissa McBay Merritt, Markos Valaris
  • American pragmatism: Fallibilism and cognitive progress / Christopher Hookway
  • Wittgenstein on knowledge / Paul Snowdon
  • Quine, Goldman and two ways of naturalizing epistemology / Ram Neta
  • In Gettier's wake / John Turri
  • Epistemology's future here and now / Stephen Hetherington.