MARC Record from Library of Congress

LEADER: 03541cam a2200277 a 4500
001 2009018683
003 DLC
005 20100428083516.0
008 090505s2010 enk b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2009018683
020 $a9780415552981 (pbk. : alk. paper)
020 $a0415552982 (pbk. : alk. paper)
020 $a9780415552967 (hardback : alk. paper)
020 $a0415552966 (hardback : alk. paper)
035 $a(OCoLC)ocn320953959
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dYDX$dYDXCP$dHEBIS$dDLC
050 00 $aBD161$b.P749 2010
082 00 $a121$222
100 1 $aPritchard, Duncan.
245 10 $aWhat is this thing called knowledge? /$cDuncan Pritchard.
250 $a2nd ed.
260 $aLondon ;$aNew York :$bRoutledge,$c2010.
300 $aix,185 p. ;$c26 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aWhat is knowledge? -- Some preliminaries -- Types of knowledge -- Two basic requirements on knowledge : truth and belief -- Knowing versus merely getting it right -- A brief remark on truth -- The value of knowledge -- Why care about knowledge? -- The instrumental value of true belief -- The value of knowledge -- The statues of Daedalus -- Is some knowledge intrinsically valuable? -- Defining knowledge -- The problem of the criterion -- Methodism and particularism -- Knowledge as justifed true belief -- Gettier cases -- Responding to the gettier cases -- Back to the problem of the criterion -- The structure of knowledge -- Knowledge and justification -- The enigmatic nature of justification -- Agrippa's trilemma -- Infinitism -- Coherentism -- Foundationalism -- Rationality -- Rationality, justification, and knowledge -- Epistemic rationality and the goal of truth -- The goal(s) of epistemic rationality -- The (un)importance of epistemic rationality -- Rationality and responsibility -- Epistemic internalism/externalism -- Virtues and faculties -- Reliabilism -- A gettier problem for reliabilism -- Virtue epistemology -- Virtue epistemology and the externalism/internalism distinction -- Where does knowledge come from? -- Perception -- The problem of perceptual knowledge -- Indirect realism -- Idealism -- Transcendental idealism -- Direct realism -- Testimony and memory -- The problem of testimonial knowledge -- Reductionism -- Credulism -- The problem of memorial knowledge -- A priority and inference -- A priori and empirical knowledge -- The interdependence of A priori and empirical knowledge -- Introspective knowledge -- Deduction -- Induction -- Abduction -- The problem of induction -- The problem of induction -- Responding to the problem of induction -- Living with the problem of induction I : falsification -- Living with the problem of induction II : pragmatism -- A case study : moral knowledge -- The problem of moral knowledge -- Scepticism about moral facts -- Scepticism about moral knowledge -- The nature of moral knowledge (I) : classical foundationalism -- The nature of moral knowledge (II) : alternative conceptions -- Do we know anything at all? -- Scepticism about other minds -- The problem of other minds -- The argument from analogy -- A problem for the argument from analogy -- Two versions of the problem of other minds -- Perceiving someone else's mind -- Radical scepticism -- The radical sceptical paradox -- Scepticism and closure -- Mooreanism -- Contextualism -- Truth and objectivity -- Objectivity, anti-realism, and scepticism -- Truth as the goal of inquiry -- Authenticity and the value of truth -- Relativism.
650 0 $aKnowledge, Theory of.