Title: After certainty : a history of our epistemic ideals and illusions /
Authors: Pasnau, Robert
Year: 2017
Subjects: Certainty.; Knowledge, Theory of; Certainty; Knowledge, Theory of; PHILOSOPHY / Epistemology.
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""