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Title Knowledge in contemporary philosophy / edited by Stephen Hetherington and Markos Valaris.

Publication Info. London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2019.

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Series The philosophy of knowledge, a history ; v. IV
Philosophy of knowledge, a history ; v. IV.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Cover; Half Title; Series; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Contributors; General Editor's Preface; Introduction: Theorizing about Theorizing about Knowledge; Notes; References; 1 Pragmatism and Epistemology; 1. Introduction; 2. The classical pragmatists: Peirce; 3. The classical pragmatists: James; 4. The classical pragmatists: Dewey; 5. Neopragmatism: knowledge and social entitlement; 6. Neopragmatism: pragmatic encroachment; Notes; References; 2 On Our Epistemological Debt to Moore and Russell; 1. Introduction: the view from here
2. Acknowledging a Russellian milestone (or two, or three)3. Moore's Paradox; 4. Mooreanism and scepticism; 5. Concluding remarks: reverence renewed?; Notes; References; 3 What Knowledge Is Not: Reflections on Some Uses of the Verb 'To Know'; 1. Introduction; 2. The relevance of expressions; 3. Reflections on first-person and third-person (singular) uses of 'to know', 'to be certain', and 'to believe'; 4. Scepticism; 5. Conclusion; Notes; References; 4 Naturalistic Descriptions of Knowledge; 1. Introduction; 2. What is naturalistic epistemology?; 2.1 Quine's impact
2.2 Forms of naturalistic epistemology2.3 Waves of naturalistic epistemology; 3. The first wave of naturalistic epistemology: programmatic debates; 3.1 The intuition debate; 3.2 The normativity debate; 4. The second wave of naturalistic epistemology: building on empirical research; 4.1 Knowledge as a natural kind; 4.2 Memory as a source of knowledge; 5. A third wave of naturalistic epistemology? Conducting empirical research; 5.1 Experimental philosophy as experimental epistemology; 5.2 Experimental psychology as experimental epistemology; 6. Conclusion; References
5 Knowing the Unobservable: Confirmation and Theoretical Virtues1. Introduction; 2. Foundationalist conceptions of scientific knowledge; 3. Holistic confirmation; 4. Theoretical virtues; 5. Probabilistic confirmation; 6. Prior probabilities and plausibility; 7. Concluding thoughts; Notes; References; 6 Social Knowledge and Social Norms; 1. Introduction; 2. Justification versus knowledge (the anti-luck condition); 3. What is testimony?; 4. The possibility of knowledge transmission; 5. Testimonial justification: reductionism versus anti-reductionism; 6. Counterexamples to transmission
7. A safe-basis account of testimonial knowledge8. The reliability of testimony and social norms; Notes; References; 7 Knowledge-How and Perceptual Learning; 1. Introduction; 2. Belief-based knowledge-how; 3. Perceptual and proprioceptive learning; 4. Conclusion; Notes; References; 8 Self-Knowledge; 1. Introduction; 2. A rough consensus, and a challenge; 3. Assessing the case for scepticism; 3.1 Knowledge of the attitudes; 3.2 Knowledge of conscious experience; 3.3 Knowledge of causes and dispositions; 4. Conclusion; Notes; References; 9 Knowledge as Contextual
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Subject Knowledge, Theory of.
Knowledge, Theory of.
Philosophy, Modern.
Philosophy, Modern.
epistemology.
Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge.
History of Western philosophy.
Philosophy.
PHILOSOPHY -- Epistemology.
Added Author Hetherington, Stephen, editor.
Valaris, Markos, editor.
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