When Is True Belief Knowledge? /

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A woman glances at a broken clock and comes to believe it is a quarter past seven. Yet, despite the broken clock, it really does happen to be a quarter past seven. Her belief is true, but it isn't knowledge. This is a classic illustration of a central problem in epistemology: determining what k...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Foley, Richard, 1947-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2012.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Knowledge, Theory of.
Belief and doubt.
PHILOSOPHY > Epistemology.
epistemology.
Croyance et doute.
Theorie de la connaissance.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • An observation
  • Post-gettier accounts of knowledge
  • Knowledge stories
  • Intuitions about knowledge
  • Important truths
  • Maximally accurate and comprehensive beliefs
  • The beetle in the box
  • Knowledge blocks
  • The theory of knowledge and theory of justified belief
  • The value of true belief
  • The value of knowledge
  • The lottery and preface
  • Reverse lottery stories
  • Lucky knowledge
  • Closure and skepticism
  • Disjunctions
  • Fixedness and knowledge
  • Instability and knowledge
  • Misleading defeaters
  • Believing that I don't know
  • Introspective knowledge
  • Perceptual knowledge
  • A priori knowledge
  • Collective knowledge
  • A look back
  • Epistemology within a general theory of rationality
  • The core concepts of epistemology.

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