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After certainty : a history of our epistemic ideals and illusions /

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After Certainty offers a reconstruction of the history of epistemology, understood as a series of changing expectations about the cognitive ideal that we might hope to achieve in this world. Pasnau ranges widely over philosophy from Aristotle to the 17th century, and examines in some detail the rise...

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Main Author: Pasnau, Robert (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2017.
Subjects:
Certainty.
Knowledge, Theory of.
Certitude.
Théorie de la connaissance.
epistemology.
PHILOSOPHY > Epistemology.
Certainty
Knowledge, Theory of
Electronic books.
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Summary:After Certainty offers a reconstruction of the history of epistemology, understood as a series of changing expectations about the cognitive ideal that we might hope to achieve in this world. Pasnau ranges widely over philosophy from Aristotle to the 17th century, and examines in some detail the rise of science as an autonomous discipline.
Physical Description:1 online resource
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780191840371
0191840378
9780192521934
0192521934