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Knowledge - Genetic Foundations and Epistemic Coherence.
Since the 1960s there is a controversial discussion about the correct explication of the concept of knowledge in epistemology, but until today no generally accepted solution to the problem of defining this concept has been found. This book contributes to the discussion in epistemology by proposing a...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berlin :
De Gruyter,
2011.
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| Colección: | Deutsche Hochschulschriften. Epistemische Studien.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface; The Epistemologist's Dilemma: A Reasonable Quest for Truth; Truth-Conducivity; Truth-Conducivity and Likelihood; Truth-Conducivity
- an Amendment; Externalism and Internalism; Internalism; Externalism; In Defense of Internalism; Arguing against Externalism by Counterexamples; The Children-and-Animals-Objection; The Skepticism Objection; The Externalist Confusion; Against Justification; The Relativity of Justification; Knowledge without Justification; Coherence and the World Connection; Coherence and Truth-Conducivity; What is Coherence?; The Problem of the World Connection.
- The First Attempt: BonJour's Observation RequirementBonJour's Characterization of Coherence; The Role of Observation in BonJour's Coherence Theory; BonJour's Answers to the Three Objections; Two Arguments against BonJour's Solution; The Second Attempt: Davidson's Appeal to Language; Davidson on Coherence and Truth; Meaning and Interpretation; Causality and Meaning; An Epistemological Dilemma; Perception, Coherence and Knowledge; The Role of Perception; Sensation and Perception; Conceptual versus Nonconceptual Content; In Defense of Nonconceptuality of Perceptual Content.
- Against Nonconceptuality of Perceptual ContentTriangulation and Perception; Perception without Empiricism; Genetic Foundations and Epistemic Coherence; Objective Truth-Conducivity and Genetic Foundations; Subjective Truth-Conducivity and Epistemic Coherence; Laurence BonJour: Inferential Coherence; Keith Lehrer: Coherence in Terms of Meeting Objections; A Two-Level Account of Coherence; Knowledge as Coherent True Belief; Bibliography.