Knowledge in Modern Philosophy

by Stephen Gaukroger (Editor)

Overview

The Philosophy of Knowledge: A History presents the history of one of Western philosophy's greatest challenges: understanding the nature of knowledge. Divided chronologically into four volumes, it follows conceptions of knowledge that have been proposed, defended, replaced, and proposed anew by ancient, medieval, modern and contemporary philosophers.

This volume covers questions of science and religion in the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries and the work of Descartes, Hobbes, Kant and Leibniz.

With original insights into the vast sweep of ways in which philosophers have sought to understand knowledge, The Philosophy of Knowledge: A History embraces what is vital and evolving within contemporary epistemology. Overseen by an international team of leading philosophers and featuring 50 specially-commissioned chapters, this is a major collection on one of philosophy's defining topics.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781474258449
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date:	09/20/2021
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	216
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Stephen Gaukroger is Emeritus Professor of History of Philosophy and History of Science at the University of Sydney, Australia.
Stephen Gaukroger was Emeritus Professor of History of Philosophy and History of Science at the University of Sydney, Australia.
Stephen Hetherington is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at University of New South Wales, Australia. His books include Good Knowledge, Bad Knowledge (2001), How To Know (2011), and Knowledge and the Gettier Problem (2016). He is the general editor, for Bloomsbury, of The Philosophy of Knowledge: A History (2018, four volumes). He is also Editor-in-Chief of the Australasian Journal of Philosophy.

Table of Contents

Introduction (Stephen Gaukroger)
1. Bacon (Matthew Sharpe)
2. Gassendi and Hobbes (Antonia LoLordo and Stewart Duncan)
3. Descartes (Anik Waldow)
4. Spinoza (Aaron Garrett)
5. Malebranche (Andrew Pyle)
6. Leibniz (Justin E. H. Smith)
7. Locke (Peter Anstey)
8. Hume (Margaret Schabas)
9. Kant (John Zammito)
10. German Idealism (Dean Moyar)
11. Whewell, Mill, and the Birth of the Philosophy of Science (Stephen Gaukroger)