Aspects of Knowing

Download or read book Aspects of Knowing written by and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2006-05-19 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AcknowledgementsContributors1. Introduction: The art of precise epistemology Stephen HetheringtonPart A. Epistemology as scientific?2. A problem about epistemic dependenceTim Oakley3. Accounting for commitments: A priori knowledge, ontology, and logical entailmentsMichaelis Michael4. Epistemic bootstrappingPeter Forrest5. More praise for Moore's proofRoger White6. Lotteries and the Close Shave principleJohn Collins7. Skepticism, self-knowledge, and responsibilityDavid Macarthur8. A reasonable contextualism (or, Austin reprised)A. B. Dickerson9. Questioning contextualismBrian WeathersonPart B. Understanding knowledge?10. Truthmaking and the Gettier problemAdrian Heathcote11. Is knowing having the right to be sure?André Gallois12. Knowledge by intention? On the possibility of agent's knowledgeAnne Newstead13. Gettier's theoremJohn Bigelow14. Knowledge that works: A tale of two conceptual modelsStephen Hetherington