How to Know

£36.95

How to Know

A Practicalist Conception of Knowledge

Philosophy

Author: Stephen Hetherington

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Language: English

Published by: Wiley-Blackwell

Published on: 8th March 2011

Format: LCP-protected ePub

Size: 694 Kb

ISBN: 9781118078693


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.

Key Features

  • 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.

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