ISBN:
1417537728
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9780791458112
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0791458121
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9780791458129
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9780791486375
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0791486370
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0791458113
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9781417537723
Language:
English
Pages:
xvii, 406 p
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ill
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23 cm
Edition:
Boulder, Colo NetLibrary 2004 Online-Ressource E-Books von NetLibrary
Series Statement:
SUNY series in philosophy
Series Statement:
EBSCOhost eBook Collection
Parallel Title:
Print version Epistemology
Keywords:
Knowledge, Theory of.
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Knowledge, Theory of
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Knowledge, Theory of
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Knowledge, Theory of.
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PHILOSOPHY ; Epistemology
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Knowledge, Theory of
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Erkenntnistheorie
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books Electronic books
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Einführung
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Erkenntnistheorie
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Erkenntnistheorie
Abstract:
A comprehensive introduction to the theory of knowledge. Guided by the founding ideas of American pragmatism, Epistemology provides a clear example of the basic concepts involved in knowledge acquisition and explains the principles at work in the development of rational inquiry. It examines how these principles analyze the course of scientific progress and how the development of scientific inquiry inevitably encounters certain natural disasters. At the center of the book's deliberations there lies not only the potential for scientific progress but also the limit of science as well. This comprehensive introduction to the theory of knowledge addresses a myriad of topics, including the critique of skepticism, the nature of rationality, the possibility of science for extraterrestrial intelligences, and the prospect of insoluble issues in science
Abstract:
Annotation
Abstract:
Machine generated contents note:Ch. 1Modes of Knowledge --Ch. 2Fallibilism and Truth Estimation --Ch. 3Skepticism and Its Deficits --Ch. 4Epistemic Justification in a Functionalistic and Naturalistic Perspective --Ch. 5Plausibility and Presumption --Ch. 6Trust and Cooperation in Pragmatic Perspective --Ch. 7Foundationalism and Coherentism --Ch. 8Pursuit of Truth: Coherentist Criteriology --Ch. 9Cognitive Relativism and Contexualism --Ch. 10Pragmatic Rationale of Cognitive Objectivity --Ch. 11Rationality --Ch. 12Scientific Progress --Ch. 13Law of Logarithmic Returns and the Complexification of Natural Science --Ch. 14Imperfectability of Knowledge: Knowledge as Boundless --Ch. 15Rational Intelligibility of Nature --Ch. 16Human Science as Characteristically Human --Ch. 17On Ignorance, Insolubilia, and the Limits of Knowledge --Ch. 18Cognitive Realism.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 369-401) and index
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Electronic reproduction, Boulder, Colo : NetLibrary, 2004
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