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Theory of Knowledge : A Coursebook.
Title:
Theory of Knowledge : A Coursebook.
Author:
Hay, Clare.
ISBN:
9780718840013
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (96 pages)
Contents:
Front Cover -- Title Page -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Empiricism and Rationalism -- Rationalism -- Innateness -- Plato's Meno -- Causation and the Laws of Nature -- Empiricism -- Beginning at the Beginning -- Ideas of sensation and reflection, and concepts -- Cause and Necessity -- Further Reading -- Questions -- 2. Knowledge and Justification -- Foundationalism and Coherentism -- Foundationalism -- Foundationalism and Empiricism -- Objections to Foundationalism -- Coherentism -- Objections to Coherentism -- Summary -- Induction and Deduction -- Truth, Belief, and Justification -- The Gettier Puzzle - Problems with the Tripartite Definition -- Two Accounts of Truth -- Non-Justificatory Approaches to Knowledge -- (1) Reliabilism -- (2) Internalism and Externalism -- The Story So Far -- Further Reading -- Questions -- 3. Knowledge and Scepticism -- Two Forms of Scepticism -- Descartes and the Method of Doubt - the Meditations -- Arguments from Illusion, Deception, and Dreaming -- "Cogito, ergo sum" -- the cogito -- Reason as the Source of our Conceptual Apparatus -- Empiricism and Scepticism -- Is Global Scepticism Possible? -- My Knowledge of My Self -- Further Reading -- Questions -- 4. Knowledge of the External World -- Naive Realism -- Experience as a Source of Concepts -- Representative Realism -- Phenomenalism -- Idealism -- Further Reading -- Questions -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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