Evidence and Inquiry: Towards Reconstruction in Epistemology - Couverture rigide

Haack, Susan

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0631118519 ISBN 13 : 9780631118510

Editeur : Blackwell Publishers, 1993

Synopsis

This work provides an introduction to contemporary epistemology. Haack discusses and criticizes the views of a range of contemporary philosophers - Sir Karl Popper, W.V.O. Quine, Richard Rorty, Alvin Goldman, and Paul and Patricia Churchland, among others. Haack proposes original solutions to the problems of epistemology, examining the failures of traditional foundationalist and coherence accounts and setting out to achieve a satisfying synthesis of the legitimate elements in both.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

In this important new work, Haack develops an original theory of empirical evidence or justification, and argues its appropriateness to the goals of inquiry. In so doing, Haack provides detailed critical case studies of Lewis′s foundationalism; Davidson′s and Bonjour′s coherentism; Popper′s ′epistemology without a knowing subject′; Quine′s naturalism; Goldman′s reliabilism; and Rorty′s, Stich′s, and the Churchlands′ recent obituaries of epistemology.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Blackwell Publishers
• Date d'édition: 1993
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0631118519
• ISBN 13: 9780631118510
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 288
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible