Challenging knowledge : how we (sometimes) don't know what we think we know /
Starting-point epistemology (SPE) is a new position that, coupled with agent-centered rationality, is the key to resolving philosophical skepticism. SPE acknowledges that metacognitively-sophisticated agents know that they know things and know (something) about the methods by which this happens. Age...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
[2025].
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| Summary: | Starting-point epistemology (SPE) is a new position that, coupled with agent-centered rationality, is the key to resolving philosophical skepticism. SPE acknowledges that metacognitively-sophisticated agents know that they know things and know (something) about the methods by which this happens. Agent-centered rationality implies that a metacognitively-sophisticated agent should only desert a knowledge claim because of a challenge they recognize to be fatal to that claim. Skepticism is metacognitive pathology. Except in those rare cases when an individual is cognitively damaged, skeptical arguments should fail. This book studies the various ways the cognitively healthy can protect themselves from prematurely distrusting what they take themselves to know. A skeptical position results from an agent's failure to correctly monitor their own processes of knowledge-gathering. |
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| Physical Description: | xii, 304 pages ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [291]-298) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780197789629 0197789625 |