Basic Knowledge and Conditions on Knowledge - Softcover

McBride, Mark

 
9781783742837: Basic Knowledge and Conditions on Knowledge
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1783742836 ISBN 13: 9781783742837
Publisher: Open Book Publishers, 2017

Synopsis

How do we know what we know? In this stimulating and rigorous book, Mark McBride explores two sets of issues in contemporary epistemology: the problems that warrant transmission poses for the category of basic knowledge; and the status of conclusive reasons, sensitivity, and safety as conditions that are necessary for knowledge.
To have basic knowledge is to know (have justification for) some proposition immediately, i.e., knowledge (justification) that doesn't depend on justification for any other proposition. This book considers several puzzles that arise when you take seriously the possibility that we can have basic knowledge.
McBride's analysis draws together two vital strands in contemporary epistemology that are usually treated in isolation from each other. Additionally, its innovative arguments include a new application of the safety condition to the law.
This book will be of interest to epistemologists―both professionals and students.

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Publisher
Open Book Publishers
Publication date
2017
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1783742836
ISBN 13 
9781783742837
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
240

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