Challenging knowledge : how we (sometimes) don't know what we think we know /
Starting-point epistemology (SPE) is a new position in epistemology that, coupled with agent-centred rationality - the idea that a rational agent is one who cleaves to their own picture of rationality - is the key to resolving philosophical scepticism. SPE acknowledges that metacogntively-sophistica...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
[2025]
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | Starting-point epistemology (SPE) is a new position in epistemology that, coupled with agent-centred rationality - the idea that a rational agent is one who cleaves to their own picture of rationality - is the key to resolving philosophical scepticism. SPE acknowledges that metacogntively-sophisticated agents know that they know things, and know some things about the methods by which this happens. Agent-centred rationality implies that a metacognitively-sophisticated agent should only desert a knowledge claim because of a challenge they recognise to be fatal to that claim. Scepticism is metacognitive pathology. Except in those rare cases when an individual is cognitively damaged, sceptical arguments should fail. In this book, Jody Azzouni studies the various ways the cognitively healthy can protect themselves from prematurely denying what they take themselves to know. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xii, 304 pages). |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780197789650 019778965X |