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What is this thing called Knowledge? 4th edition [Hardback]

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(University of California, Irvine, USA)
  • Formāts: Hardback, 252 pages, height x width: 246x174 mm, weight: 476 g
  • Sērija : What is this thing called?
  • Izdošanas datums: 27-Mar-2018
  • Izdevniecība: Routledge
  • ISBN-10: 1138225797
  • ISBN-13: 9781138225794
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  • Formāts: Hardback, 252 pages, height x width: 246x174 mm, weight: 476 g
  • Sērija : What is this thing called?
  • Izdošanas datums: 27-Mar-2018
  • Izdevniecība: Routledge
  • ISBN-10: 1138225797
  • ISBN-13: 9781138225794
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What is knowledge? Where does it come from? What kinds of knowledge are there? Can we know anything at all? What is the practical relevance of learning about epistemology?

This lucid and engaging introduction grapples with these central questions in the theory of knowledge, offering a clear, non-partisan view of the main themes of epistemology. Both traditional issues and contemporary ideas are discussed in twenty easily digestible chapters, each of which conclude with a useful summary of the main ideas discussed, study questions, annotated further reading and a guide to internet resources.

Each chapter also features text boxes providing bite-sized summaries of key concepts and major philosophers, and clear and interesting examples are used throughout. The book concludes with an annotated guide to general introductions to epistemology, a glossary of key terms, and a summary of the main examples used in epistemology. This an ideal first textbook in the theory of knowledge for undergraduates coming to philosophy for the first time.

The fourth edition has been revised and updated throughout and features four new chapters on applied epistemology, covering the relationship between the theory of knowledge and technology, education, law, and politics. In addition, the text as a whole has been refreshed to keep it up to date with current developments.

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"Duncan Pritchards What is this thing called Knowledge is the best text book as a first introduction to epistemology. The summaries, up-to-date reading suggestions and largely independent chapters make it very easy and flexible to use for instructors and students alike. The new chapters on applied epistemology are a great idea: they show the relevance of epistemology to some of the most important problems in modern-day life and society."

Markus Lammenranta, University of Helsinki, Finland.

"Pritchards fourth edition of What is this thing called Knowledge? improves on an already outstanding introductory text. With new chapters covering the relationship between theory of knowledge and technology, law, politics and education this is a highly accessible, but never condescending book. Thoroughly engaging, consistently thought-provoking, exceptionally lucid, with attention to both classic debates and contemporary developments, What is this thing called Knowledge? offers students a superlative introduction to epistemology."

Jill Rusin, Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada.

"Pritchards updated edition is a superior resource for students and scholars alike. It expertly traverses the terrain surrounding familiar debates over the sources and structure of knowledge, and then guides the reader through newer epistemic territories and applied domains."

Robert Barnard, University of Mississippi, USA

Preface to the fourth edition xi
How to use this book xii
PART I WHAT IS KNOWLEDGE?
1(64)
1 Some preliminaries
3(7)
Types of Knowledge
3(1)
Two Basic Requirements of Knowledge: Truth and Belief
4(1)
Knowing Versus Merely Getting It Right'
5(2)
A Brief Remark On Truth
7(3)
2 The value of knowledge
10(9)
Why Care About Knowledge?
10(1)
The Instrumental Value of True Belief
10(2)
The Value of Knowledge
12(2)
The Statues of Daedalus
14(1)
Is Some Knowledge Non-Instrument Ally Valuable?
15(4)
3 Defining knowledge
19(11)
The Problem of the Criterion
19(1)
Methodism and Particularism
20(2)
Knowledge as Justified True Belief
22(1)
Gettier Cases
22(3)
Responding to the Gettier Cases
25(2)
Back to the Problem of the Criterion
27(3)
4 The structure of knowledge
30(11)
Knowledge and Justification
30(1)
The Enigmatic Nature of Justification
30(2)
Agrippa's Trilemma
32(1)
Infinitism
33(1)
Coherentism
33(2)
Foundationals
35(6)
5 Rationality
41(13)
Rationality. Justification, and Knowledge
41(1)
Epistemic Rationality and the Goal of Truth
42(2)
The Goal(s) of Epistemic Rationality
44(1)
The (Un)importance of Epistemic Rationality
45(1)
Rationality and Responsibility
46(2)
Epistemic Internalism/Externalism
48(6)
6 Virtues and faculties
54(11)
Reliabilism
54(1)
A `Gettier' Problem for Reliabilism
55(2)
Virtue Epistemology
57(2)
Virtue Epistemology and the Externalism/Internalism Distinction
59(6)
PART II WHERE DOES KNOWLEDGE COME FROM?
65(44)
7 Perception
67(10)
The Problem of Perceptual Knowledge
67(2)
Indirect Realism
69(2)
Idealism
71(1)
Transcendental Idealism
72(1)
Direct Realism
73(4)
8 Testimony and memory
77(11)
The Problem of Testimonial Knowledge
77(2)
Reductionism
79(2)
Credulism
81(2)
The Problem of Memorial Knowledge
83(5)
9 A priority and inference
88(10)
A Priori and Empirical Knowledge
88(1)
The Interdependence of a Priori and Empirical Knowledge
89(1)
Introspective Knowledge
90(1)
Deduction
91(1)
Induction
92(1)
Abduction
93(5)
10 The problem of induction
98(11)
The Problem of Induction
98(2)
Responding to the Problem of Induction
100(1)
Living with the Problem of Induction I: Falsification
100(3)
Living with the Problem of Induction II: Pragmatism
103(6)
PART III WHAT KINDS OF KNOWLEDGE ARE THERE?
109(44)
11 Scientific knowledge
111(13)
What is Science?
111(2)
Science Versus Pseudo-Science
113(6)
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
119(2)
Concluding Remarks
121(3)
12 Religious knowledge
124(15)
Is There Any Religious Knowledge?
124(1)
The Evidentialist Challenge to Religious Knowledge
125(1)
Natural Theology
126(4)
Fideism
130(1)
Reformed Epistemology
131(8)
13 Moral knowledge
139(14)
The Problem of Moral Knowledge
139(1)
Scepticism About Moral Facts
139(3)
Scepticism About Moral Knowledge
142(3)
The Nature of Moral Knowledge I: Classical Foundationals
145(2)
The Nature of Moral Knowledge II: Alternative Conceptions
147(6)
PART IV HOW CAN THE THEORY OF KNOWLEDGE BE APPLIED TO PARTICULAR DOMAINS?
153(38)
14 Technology
155(10)
Our Increasing Dependence on Technology
155(2)
Extended Knowledge?
157(2)
Intellectual Virtue and Extended Knowledge
159(6)
15 Education
165(8)
The Epistemic Goals of Education
165(3)
Intellectual Virtue and Education
168(1)
Technology and Education
169(4)
16 Law
173(9)
The Epistemic Goals of the Law
173(3)
Adversarial Versus Investigatory Trials
176(1)
Legal Evidence
177(5)
17 Politics
182(9)
Democratic Politics and Informed Citizens
182(2)
Bullshit
184(1)
`Post-Fact' Politics
185(2)
Epistemic Injustice
187(4)
PART V DO WE HAVE ANY KNOWLEDGE?
191(31)
18 Scepticism about other minds
193(8)
The Problem of Other Minds
193(1)
The Argument From Analogy
194(1)
A Problem for the Argument from Analogy
195(1)
Two Versions of the Problem of Other Minds
196(1)
Perceiving Someone Else's Mind
197(4)
19 Radical scepticism
201(13)
The Radical Sceptical Paradox
201(3)
Scepticism and Closure
204(1)
Mooreanism
205(4)
Contextualism
209(5)
20 Truth and objectivity
214(8)
Objectivity, Anti-Realism, and Scepticism
214(1)
Truth as the Goal of Inquiry
215(2)
Authenticity and the Value of Truth
217(1)
Relativism
218(4)
General further reading 222(5)
Glossary of terms 227(17)
Glossary of key examples 244(3)
Index 247
Duncan Pritchard FRSE is Chancellors Professor of Philosophy at the University of California Irvine, USA, and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh, UK. His main research area is epistemology, and he has published widely in this field. His monographs include Epistemic Luck (2005), The Nature and Value of Knowledge (with A. Millar and A. Haddock, 2010), Epistemological Disjunctivism (2012), and Epistemic Angst (2015). In 2007 he was awarded a Philip Leverhulme Prize for his research. In 2011 he was elected to a Fellowship of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. In 2013 he delivered the annual Soochow Lectures in Philosophy, in Taipei, Taiwan.