Empirical knowledge; readings from contemporary sources
By: edited by Roderick M. Chisholm and Robert J. Swartz.
Contributors: Swartz, Robert J., joint comp.
Publisher: Prentice-Hall
Published: 1973
Place of publication: Englewood Cliffs, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 570
Subjects: Knowledge, Theory of; Empiricism; Memory
Description: The various essays in this book, most of which were first published after World War II, and all but one of which belong to the present century, may be thought of as growing out of contemporary attempts to deal with the ancient problem of the criterion.
Notes: Includes bibliographies.
Table of contents: title: Nelson, L. The impossibility of the "Theory of knowledge."; title: Moore, G. E. Four forms of skepticism.; title: Lehrer, K. Skepticism & conceptual change.; title: Quine, W. V. Epistemology naturalized.; title: Rozeboom, W. W. Why I know so much more than you do.; title: Price, H. H. Belief and evidence.; title: Lewis, C. I. The bases of empirical knowledge.; title: Malcolm, N. The verification argument.; title: Firth, R. The anatomy of certainty.; title: Chisholm, R. M. On the nature of empirical evidence.; title: Meinong, A. Toward an epistemological assessment of memory.; title: Brandt, R. The epistemological status of memory beliefs.; title: Malcolm, N. A definition of factual memory.; title: Martin, C. B. and Deutscher, M. Remembering.; title: Ayer, A. J. Basic propositions.; title: Reichenbach, H. Are phenomenal reports absolutely certain?; title: Goodman, N. Sense and certainty.; title: Lewis, C. I. The given element in empirical knowledge.; title: Alston, W. Varieties of privileged access.; title: Schlick, M. The foundation of knowledge.; title: Russell, B. Epistemological premisses, basic propositions, and factual premisses.; title: Firth, R. Coherence, certainty, and epistemic priority.; title: Sellars, W. Empiricism and the philosophy of mind.; title: Quinton, A. The foundations of knowledge.