Epistemic principles : a primer for the theory of knowledge /
Epistemic Principles: A Primer of the Theory of Knowledge' presents a compact account of the basic principles of the theory of knowledge. In doing this, Nicholas Rescher aims to fill the current gap in contemporary philosophical theory of knowledge with a comprehensive analysis of epistemologic...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Peter Lang Publishing, Inc.,
[2017]
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| Series: | American university studies. Philosophy ;
v. 228. |
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Table of Contents:
- Principles
- Questions
- Ideas
- Principles of truth and acceptance
- Presumption as a pathway to plausibility
- Conjecture and the move from mere plausibility and presumption to acceptability
- Plausibility conflicts and paradox
- From conjecture to belief and from belief to knowledge
- The epistemic gap and grades of acceptance
- Cognitive thresholds
- Intuitive knowledge
- Experience and induction
- Distributive vs. collective explanation
- Cognitive importance
- Problems of prediction
- Error and cognitive risk
- Problems of skepticism
- Trust
- Common sense
- How science works
- Scientific realism and its problems
- The anthomorphic contextuality of science
- Ignorance and limits of knowledge
- On systemic "best fit" reasoning
- Inference from the best systematization
- The cyclic unity of reason
- Fact, fiction and functional surrogacy
- A pragmatic coda.