Title: Epistemology; Or, the Theory of Knowledge: an Introduction to General Metaphysics: Volume 1
Publisher: HardPress Ltd
Publication Date: 2016
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0371339227
ISBN 13: 9780371339220
Binding: Paperback / softback
Condition: New
Weight: 526 grams

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Epistemology; Or, The Theory Of Knowledge: An Introduction To General Metaphysics by Peter Coffey presents a systematic introduction to epistemology as a branch of general metaphysics, surveying the grounds, limits, and certainty of human knowledge from a Scholastic-Aristotelian perspective. The work treats epistemology as a practical guide for university students rather than a history of theories, combining introspection with external observation and rational inference, and situating epistemology alongside logic and psychology. It outlines how logic provides normative rules for thinking, how psychology analyzes cognitive processes, and how ontology and epistemology depend on each other. A historical survey traces the development of knowledge theories from ancient skepticism and medieval scholasticism through Descartes and Kant to modern currents such as sensualism, idealism, and pragmatism, with attention to Catholic scholastic revival. Core problems include defining knowledge, truth, error, and certitude; distinguishing cognitive from non-cognitive states; and testing judgments against reality. The text explains five kinds of judgments, the role of the will, the practical bearing on religion, and the three-part structure of the book. It defends moderate realism, critiques Kantian conceptualism, nominalism, and extreme realism, and aims to ground objective universals in sense data while recognizing the mind’s role in abstraction.

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