Epistemology: The Key Thinkers (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Hetherington, Stephen

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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, through the work of the finest thinkers on the topic. Chapters by leading contemporary scholars guide readers through the ideas of key philosophers, beginning with Plato and Aristotle, through Descartes and the British empiricists, to such twentieth-century thinkers such as Wittgenstein, Quine, Goldman, and beyond. The final chapter looks to the future, highlighting some of the very latest debates that energise philosophical writing today about knowledge.

Each chapter ends with a guide to further reading, encouraging students to explore the key writings for themselves, making Epistemology: The Key Thinkers a perfect guide for study, revision, and reference.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks UK
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. April 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781441194350
• Artikelnr.: 39486508

Autorenporträt

Stephen Hetherington is Professor of Philosophy at the University of New South Wales, in Sydney, Australia. He has written several books, including Good Knowledge, Bad Knowledge (Oxford University Press, 2001), Self-Knowledge (Broadview, 2007), and How To Know (Wiley-Blackwell, 2011). He has edited two books, including Epistemology Futures (Oxford University Press, 2006).

Inhaltsangabe

Notes on Contributors \ 1. Epistemology's Past Here and Now
Stephen Hetherington \ 2. Plato's Epistemology
Nicholas D. Smith \ 3. Aristotle on Knowledge
Robert Bolton and Alan Code \ 4. Ancient Scepticism
Gisela Striker \ 5. The Epistemology of Descartes
Desmond M. Clarke \ 6. Locke
Berkeley
Hume: Epistemology
P. J. E. Kail \ 7. Kant and Kantian Epistemology
Melissa McBay Merritt and Markos Valaris \ 8. American Pragmatism: Fallibilism and Cognitive Progress
Christopher Hookway \ 9. Wittgenstein on Knowledge
Paul Snowdon \ 10. Quine
Goldman and Two Ways of Naturalizing Epistemology
Ram Neta \ 11. In Gettier's Wake
John Turri \ 12. Epistemology's Future Here and Now
Stephen Hetherington \ Index