What is this thing called knowledge?
By: Duncan Pritchard.
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2009
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780415552981; 9780415552967
Subjects: Knowledge, Theory of
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: What is knowledge?; title: Some preliminaries; title: Types of knowledge; title: Basic requirements on knowledge : truth and belief; title: Knowing versus merely getting it right; title: A brief remark on truth; title: The value of knowledge; title: Why care about knowledge?; title: The instrumental value of true belief; title: The value of knowledge; title: The statues of Daedalus; title: Is some knowledge intrinsically valuable?; title: Dening knowledge; title: The problem of the criterion; title: Methodism and particularism; title: Knowledge as justifed true belief; title: Gettier cases; title: Responding to the gettier cases; title: Back to the problem of the criterion; title: The structure of knowledge; title: Knowledge and justification; title: The enigmatic nature of justification; title: Agrippa's trilemma; title: Innitism; title: Coherentism; title: Foundationalism; title: Rationality; title: Rationality, justification and knowledge; title: Epistemic rationality and the goal of truth; title: The goal(s) of epistemic rationality; title: The (un)importance of epistemic rationality; title: Rationality and responsibility; title: Epistemic internalism/externalism; title: Virtues and faculties; title: Reliabilism; title: A gettier problem for reliabilism; title: Virtue epistemology; title: Virtue epistemology and the externalism/internalism distinction; title: Where does knowledge come from?; title: Perception; title: The problem of perceptual knowledge; title: Indirect realism; title: Idealism; title: Transcendental idealism; title: Direct realism; title: Testimony and memory; title: The problem of testimonial knowledge; title: Reductionism; title: Credulism; title: The problem of memorial knowledge; title: A priority and inference; title: A priori and empirical knowledge; title: The interdependence of A priori and empirical knowledge; title: Introspective knowledge; title: Deduction; title: Induction; title: Abduction; title: The problem of induction; title: The problem of induction; title: Responding to the problem of induction; title: Living with the problem of induction I : falsification; title: Living with the problem of induction II : pragmatism; title: A case study : moral knowledge; title: Scepticism about moral facts; title: Scepticism about moral knowledge; title: The nature of moral knowledge (I) : classical foundationalism; title: The nature of moral knowledge (II) : alternative conceptions; title: Do we know anything at all?; title: Scepticism about other minds; title: The problem of other minds; title: The argument from analogy; title: A problem for the argument from analogy; title: Versions of the problem of other minds; title: Perceiving someone else's mind; title: Radical scepticism; title: The radical sceptical paradox; title: Scepticism and closure; title: Mooreanism; title: Contextualism; title: Truth and objectivity; title: Objectivity, anti-realism, and scepticism; title: Truth as the goal of inquiry; title: Authenticity and the value of truth; title: Relativism.