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Beschreibung
This advanced textbook, now in its second edition, provides an accessible overview of some of the main issues in contemporary epistemology. Written by an expert in the field, it covers such key topics as virtue epistemology, anti-luck epistemology, epistemological disjunctivism, epistemic value, understanding, radical scepticism, and contextualism. This book is ideal as a set text for an advanced undergraduate or postgraduate course in epistemology, and will also be of general interest to researchers in philosophy.
This advanced textbook, now in its second edition, provides an accessible overview of some of the main issues in contemporary epistemology. Written by an expert in the field, it covers such key topics as virtue epistemology, anti-luck epistemology, epistemological disjunctivism, epistemic value, understanding, radical scepticism, and contextualism. This book is ideal as a set text for an advanced undergraduate or postgraduate course in epistemology, and will also be of general interest to researchers in philosophy.
Über den Autor
Duncan Pritchard is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh, UK. Professor Pritchard is widely recognised as one of the world's leading experts in the area of epistemology. He is the author of Epistemic Luck (2005) and Epistemological Disjunctivism (2012).
Zusammenfassung

A greatly expanded and updated second edition of an already highlyregarded advanced epistemology textbook

Includes new coverage of religious belief and testimony

Includes expanded coverage of epistemic value, understanding, foundationalism and the historical debates regarding scepticism

Much improved pedagogy, including new chapter summaries

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Analysing Knowledge

2. Anti-Luck Epistemology

3. Virtue Epistemology

4. Anti-Luck Virtue Epistemology

5. Externalism and Internalism about Knowledge

6. Radical Scepticism

7. Understanding

8. The Value of Knowledge

9. Religious Belief and Testimony

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Genre: Importe, Philosophie
Jahrhundert: Antike
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Thema: Lexika
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: xii
146 S.
ISBN-13: 9781137526915
ISBN-10: 1137526912
Sprache: Englisch
Herstellernummer: 978-1-137-52691-5
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Pritchard, D.
Auflage: Second Edition 2016
Hersteller: Palgrave Macmillan
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, D-69121 Heidelberg, juergen.hartmann@springer.com
Maße: 235 x 155 x 9 mm
Von/Mit: D. Pritchard
Erscheinungsdatum: 02.01.2017
Gewicht: 0,254 kg
Artikel-ID: 108187771