Aspects of Knowing: Epistemological Essays

by Elsevier Science

Overview

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

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780080462691
Publisher:	Elsevier Science
Publication date:	07/17/2006
Series:	Perspectives on Cognitive Science Series
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	256
File size:	541 KB

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Contributors
Part A. Epistemology as scientific?
Part B. Understanding knowledge?