Thinking with assent : renewing a traditional account of knowledge and belief /
Epistemology is currently in ferment. Ever since Plato, the textbook story goes, knowledge has been conceived as justified true belief. But in 1963 Edmund Gettier blew a huge hole in this supposedly traditional account. Six decades later, however, ongoing attempts to identify the conditions which tu...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
[2024].
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| Summary: | Epistemology is currently in ferment. Ever since Plato, the textbook story goes, knowledge has been conceived as justified true belief. But in 1963 Edmund Gettier blew a huge hole in this supposedly traditional account. Six decades later, however, ongoing attempts to identify the conditions which turn belief into knowledge continue to face counterexamples and charges of circularity. In response to this recurrent failure, leading philosophers have begun exploring alternative accounts of knowledge. This book pushes the revolt against post-Gettier epistemology in a radically new direction. It begins by challenging the crude history of philosophy underling the entire Gettier paradigm. A survey ranging from the pre-Socratics to the mid-twentieth century reveals that the allegedly 'standard' or 'traditional' analysis of knowledge is neither standard nor traditional. |
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| Physical Description: | xviii, 312 pages ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [277]-296) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780198831518 019883151X |