How to Know
A Practicalist Conception of Knowledge
Nonfiction, Religion & Spirituality, Philosophy, Epistemology
| Author: | Stephen Hetherington | ISBN: | 9781118078693 |
| Publisher: | Wiley | Publication: | March 8, 2011 |
| Imprint: | Wiley-Blackwell | Language: | English |
| Author: | Stephen Hetherington |
| ISBN: | 9781118078693 |
| Publisher: | Wiley |
| Publication: | March 8, 2011 |
| Imprint: | Wiley-Blackwell |
| Language: | English |
Some key aspects of contemporary epistemology deserve to be challenged, and How to Know does just that. This book argues that several long-standing presumptions at the heart of the standard analytic conception of knowledge are false, and defends an alternative, a practicalist conception of knowledge.
- Presents a philosophically original conception of knowledge, at odds with some central tenets of analytic epistemology
- Offers a dissolution of epistemology’s infamous Gettier problem — explaining why the supposed problem was never really a problem in the first place.
- Defends an unorthodox conception of the relationship between knowledge-that and knowledge-how, understanding knowledge-that as a kind of knowledge-how.
Some key aspects of contemporary epistemology deserve to be challenged, and How to Know does just that. This book argues that several long-standing presumptions at the heart of the standard analytic conception of knowledge are false, and defends an alternative, a practicalist conception of knowledge.
- Presents a philosophically original conception of knowledge, at odds with some central tenets of analytic epistemology
- Offers a dissolution of epistemology’s infamous Gettier problem — explaining why the supposed problem was never really a problem in the first place.
- Defends an unorthodox conception of the relationship between knowledge-that and knowledge-how, understanding knowledge-that as a kind of knowledge-how.
