Stephen Hetherington On Epistemology

Author : Stephen Hetherington
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1441153969
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Epistemology: The Key Thinkers written by Stephen Hetherington and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2012-04-26 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Plato, through Descartes to W.V. Quine and Edmund Gettier, this concise introduction and reference guide explores the history of thinking about 'knowledge'.

Author : Stephen Hetherington
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1509529535
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book What is Epistemology? written by Stephen Hetherington and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2019-05-29 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Epistemology is the philosophical study of knowledge. Epistemologists seek to understand knowledge’s nature and availability. What is knowledge? There are competing theories. Can we really have knowledge? Challenges abound. In this lively book, Stephen Hetherington introduces us to epistemological theorizing. He builds a theory and tests it, refines it, and challenges it again. He explores such topics as evidence, truth and belief, different kinds of knowledge, and knowledge’s value, as well as sceptical views concerning knowledge of the physical world, one’s own mind and memory, and rational limits for observation and reason. This epistemological theorizing is then applied to some of life’s most pressing issues, such as how to live and how to understand ourselves and others. What is Epistemology? is a practical and student-friendly guide to one of the most dynamic areas of philosophy. It will be the go-to introductory epistemology text.

Author : Stephen Hetherington
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350344761
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stephen Hetherington on Epistemology written by Stephen Hetherington and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2024-04-18 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philosophy has long embraced epistemology as one of its central elements. What is knowledge? How do we gain it? Can we gain it? Or do we always deceive ourselves when thinking that we have knowledge? Are we too deeply fallible ever to know something? For centuries, these questions have helped to define and motivate epistemological research. This volume engages strikingly with them, offering some unusual answers. Stephen Hetherington's prominent career within epistemology has been a series of bold, varied and provocative arguments and ideas. Bringing together some elements of his unique body of writing for the first time, this collection features previously published as well as new material displaying and extending some of his highly original approaches to key issues including knowledge, justification, fallibility, scepticism and the Gettier Problem. Advancing our understanding of the systemic nature of Hetherington's thinking, Stephen Hetherington on Epistemology presents his distinctive perspective on some of philosophy's central questions about knowledge – an inviting blend of forensic detail and 'big picture' proposals.

Author : Stephen Hetherington
Publisher : Clarendon Press
ISBN 13 : 0199273324
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Epistemology Futures written by Stephen Hetherington and published by Clarendon Press. This book was released on 2006-03-16 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How might epistemology build upon its past and present, so as to be better in the future? Epistemology Futures takes bold steps towards answering that question. What methods will best serve epistemology? Which phenomena and concepts deserve more attention from it? Are there approaches and assumptions that have impeded its progress until now? This volume contains provocative essays by prominent epistemologists, presenting many new ideas for possible improvements in how to doepistemology. Doubt is cast upon the powers of conceptual analysis and of epistemological intuition. Surprising aspects of knowledge are noticed. What is it? What is it not? Scepticism's limits are traced. What threatens us as potential knowers? What does not? The nature and special significance of inquiry,of normative virtues, of understanding, and of disagreement are elucidated, all with an eye on sharpening epistemology's future focus. There is definite insight and potential foresight. How might real epistemological progress occur in the future? Epistemology Futures offers some intriguing clues.

Author : Stephen Hetherington
Publisher : Clarendon Press
ISBN 13 : 0191588989
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Good Knowledge, Bad Knowledge written by Stephen Hetherington and published by Clarendon Press. This book was released on 2001-10-18 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is knowledge? How hard is it for a person to have knowledge? Good Knowledge, Bad Knowledge confronts contemporary philosophical attempts to answer those classic questions, by identifying and arguing against two fundamental epistemological presumptions. Can there be both better and worse knowledge of some fact? Can you improve your knowledge of a particular fact? Can there be especially bad knowledge of a specific fact? Epistemologists routinely answer these questions with a resounding 'No'. But Stephen Hetherington argues that those standard answers are mistaken. The result is a theory of knowledge that is unique in conceiving of knowledge in a non-absolutist way. The theory offers new solutions to many traditional epistemological puzzles, including various kinds of scepticism, the Gettier challenge, and the problem of the criterion. It also offers a fresh way of using G. E. Moore's anti-sceptical gambit, along with reinterpretations of the epistemic roles of fallibility, luck, relevance, and dogmatism. And what can we know about knowledge? The role of intuition in shaping epistemological thought about knowledge is critically examined. Anyone working on epistemology will enjoy this original and challenging work.

Author : Stephen Hetherington
Publisher : Broadview Press
ISBN 13 : 1770482369
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Self-Knowledge written by Stephen Hetherington and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2007-03-19 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Self-Knowledge introduces philosophical ideas about knowledge and the self. The book takes the form of a personal meditation: it is one person’s attempt to reflect philosophically upon vital aspects of his existence. It shows how profound philosophy can swiftly emerge from intense private reflection upon the details of one’s life and, thus, will help the reader take the first steps toward philosophical self-understanding. Along the way, readers will encounter moments of puzzlement, then clarity, followed by more perplexity and further insights, and then—finally—some philosophical peace of mind.

Author : Stephen Hetherington
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474469124
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reality? Knowledge? Philosophy! written by Stephen Hetherington and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2019-07-30 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This textbook introduction offers a new way of approaching metaphysics and epistemology - via links to ethical and social questions. It asks questions such as: Fundamentally, what are we? And what, if anything, do we know?

Author : Stephen Hetherington
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107149568
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Knowledge and the Gettier Problem written by Stephen Hetherington and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-09 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book enriches our understanding of knowledge and Gettier's challenge, stimulating debate on a central epistemological issue.

Author : Stephen Hetherington
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 9780470658123
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How to Know written by Stephen Hetherington and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-05-17 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some key aspects of contemporary epistemology deserve to be challenged, and How to Know does just that. This book argues that several long-standing presumptions at the heart of the standard analytic conception of knowledge are false, and defends an alternative, a practicalist conception of knowledge. Presents a philosophically original conception of knowledge, at odds with some central tenets of analytic epistemology Offers a dissolution of epistemology’s infamous Gettier problem — explaining why the supposed problem was never really a problem in the first place. Defends an unorthodox conception of the relationship between knowledge-that and knowledge-how, understanding knowledge-that as a kind of knowledge-how.

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Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 9780080462691
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Aspects of Knowing written by and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2006-05-19 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acknowledgements Contributors 1. Introduction: The art of precise epistemology Stephen Hetherington Part A. Epistemology as scientific? 2. A problem about epistemic dependence Tim Oakley 3. Accounting for commitments: A priori knowledge, ontology, and logical entailments Michaelis Michael 4. Epistemic bootstrapping Peter Forrest 5. More praise for Moore’s proof Roger White 6. Lotteries and the Close Shave principle John Collins 7. Skepticism, self-knowledge, and responsibility David Macarthur 8. A reasonable contextualism (or, Austin reprised) A. B. Dickerson 9. Questioning contextualism Brian Weatherson Part B. Understanding knowledge? 10. Truthmaking and the Gettier problem Adrian Heathcote 11. Is knowing having the right to be sure? André Gallois 12. Knowledge by intention? On the possibility of agent’s knowledge Anne Newstead 13. Gettier’s theorem John Bigelow 14. Knowledge that works: A tale of two conceptual models Stephen Hetherington