Contemporary Theories of Knowledge - Couverture souple

Pollock, John L.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0847674533 ISBN 13 : 9780847674534

Editeur : Rowman & Littlefield, 1989

Synopsis

Designed as a text for advanced philosophy students, this book introduces the reader to the fundamental issues and approaches in the field of epistemology. The author provides a critical survey and assessment of all major competing theories of knowledge - foundations theories, coherence theories, direct realism, reliabilism and probabilism. Pollock clarifies the dinstinguishing features of each theory and analyzes the arguments supporting or refuting them. He makes a strong case for a particular theory - the nondoxastic internalist theory of direct realism - as the most logically defensible.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

This new edition of the classic Contemporary Theories of Knowledge has been significantly updated to include analyses of the recent literature in epistemology. Rather than merely making slight amendments to the first edition, Pollock and Cruz have undertaken a groundbreaking assessment of twentiethcentury epistemology. This book is both an advanced textbook offering traditional discussions of foundationalism, coherentism, and reliabilism and a detailed treatise on the authors' own distinctive view, direct realism.

Biographie de l'auteur

John L. Pollock is professor of philosophy at the University of Arizona. Joseph Cruz is assistant professor of philosophy and cognitive science at Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Rowman & Littlefield
• Date d'édition: 1989
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0847674533
• ISBN 13: 9780847674534
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 434
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• Personne responsable: non disponible