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Defining Knowledge (Elements in Epistemology) - Softcover

Hetherington, Stephen

 
9781009095136: Defining Knowledge (Elements in Epistemology)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1009095137 ISBN 13: 9781009095136
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2022

Synopsis

Post-Gettier epistemology is increasingly modalized epistemology – proposing and debating modally explicable conditionals with suitably epistemic content (an approach initially inspired by Robert Nozick's 1981 account of knowledge), as needing to be added to 'true belief' in order to define or understand knowing's nature. This Element asks whether such modalized attempts – construed as responding to what the author calls Knowing's Further Features question (bequeathed to us by the Meno and the Theaetetus) – can succeed. The answer is that they cannot. Plato's and Aristotle's views on definition reinforce that result. Still, in appreciating this, we might gain insight into knowing's essence. We might find that knowledge is, essentially, nothing more than true belief.

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication date
2022
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1009095137
ISBN 13 
9781009095136
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
74