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  title info:
    title: After certainty
    sub title: a history of our epistemic ideals and illusions
  name:
    name part: Pasnau, Robert
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2017
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource
  abstract: 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.
  table of contents: Cover -- After Certainty: A History of Our Epistemic Ideals and Illusions -- Copyright -- Preface -- Contents -- Lecture One: The Epistemic Ideal -- Introduction -- AristotleÂś Ideal Theory -- Normative Ideals -- The Breakdown of Aristotelian Essentialism -- Trading Depth for Precision -- Epistemology in the Ascendant -- Lecture Two: Evident Certainties -- Lexicology -- DescartesÂś Ideal Theory -- The Ideal of Certainty -- Degrees of Evidentness -- Proportioned Belief -- The Limits of Knowledge -- Lecture Three: The Sensory Domain
  table of contents: Sensory IdealsDomains of Privilege -- AristotleÂś Relationalism -- Aristotelian Realism -- The Quantitative Turn -- DescartesÂś Three Paths -- The Ideal of Fidelity -- Lecture Four: Ideas and Illusions -- How Ideas Become Objects -- Introspection -- The Argument from Illusion -- Disjunctivism -- AuriolÂś Apparent Being -- OckhamÂś Simply Unmediated View -- AutrecourtÂś Platonism -- The Quest for Fidelity -- Lecture Five: The Privileged Now -- The Anselmian Glance -- Many Thoughts at Once -- Evidential Force -- DescartesÂś Privileged Now
  table of contents: MemoryÂś TestimonyDisprivileging the Present Self -- Lecture Six: Deception and Hope -- God the Deceiver -- God the Deceived -- The Dismal Verdict -- HumeÂś Quietism -- Believing Hopefully -- Notes -- Notes to Lecture One -- Introduction -- The Place of Epistemology -- Platoâ#x80;#x99;s Limited Influence -- Aristotleâ#x80;#x99;s Ideal Theory -- Normative Ideals -- The Epistemic Ideal after Aristotle -- Nonideal Cases -- Ordinary Language -- On Ideal Theory -- Calibrating the Ideal -- The Breakdown of Aristotelian Essentialism -- The History of â#x80;#x98;Knowledgeâ#x80;#x99
  table of contents: Hobbesâ#x80;#x99;s Various Epistemic PositionsLockeâ#x80;#x99;s Pessimism regarding the Ideal -- Causal Understanding -- Trading Depth for Precision -- Relinquishing Causal Understanding -- Causal Understanding in Newton -- The Ideal of Precision -- Precision versus Depth -- Developments after Newton -- Epistemology in the Ascendant -- Notes to Lecture Two -- Lexicology -- Descartesâ#x80;#x99;s Ideal Theory -- The Ideal of Certainty -- Certainty in Antiquity -- Certainty in Classical Arabic Philosophy -- Subjective versus Objective Certainty -- Degrees of Certainty
  table of contents: Higher Order CertaintyCausal Understanding and Certainty -- Certainty in the Seventeenth Century -- Degrees of Evidentness -- From Certainty to Probability -- The Meanings of â#x80;#x98;Probableâ#x80;#x99; -- Evidentness -- Buridanâ#x80;#x99;s Three Degrees -- Proportioned Belief -- Moral Certainty -- Recalibrating the Ideal -- The Banner Raised for Certainty -- Certainty Conditionalized -- The Principle of Proportionality -- The Limits of Knowledge -- â#x80;#x98;Knowledgeâ#x80;#x99; -- Fixing the Boundaries of Knowledge -- Knowledge as Moral Certainty -- Belief and Religion
  note: Robert Pasnau.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Certainty
  subject:
    topic: Knowledge, Theory of
  subject:
    topic: Certitude
  subject:
    topic: Théorie de la connaissance
  subject:
    topic: epistemology
  subject:
    topic: PHILOSOPHY
    topic: Epistemology
  subject:
    topic: Certainty
  subject:
    topic: Knowledge, Theory of
  classification: BD161
  classification: 121
  identifier: 9780191840371
  identifier: 0191840378
  identifier: 9780192521934
  identifier: 0192521934
  identifier: 9780198801788
  identifier: 0198801785
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  record info:
    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 170807
    record change date: 20260319164130.9
    record identifier: in00005715113
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng