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What Is Epistemology?

What Is Epistemology?

Hardcover

Series: What Is Philosophy?

Philosophy

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ISBN10: 1509529500
ISBN13: 9781509529506
Publisher: Polity Pr
Published: May 28 2019
Pages: 200
Weight: 0.80
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.60 Depth: 8.70
Language: English

Epistemology is the philosophical study of knowledge. Epistemologists seek to understand knowledge's nature and availability. What is knowledge? There are competing theories. Can we really have knowledge? Challenges abound.

In this lively book, Stephen Hetherington introduces us to epistemological theorizing. He builds a theory and tests it, refines it, and challenges it again. He explores such topics as evidence, truth and belief, different kinds of knowledge, and knowledge's value, as well as sceptical views concerning knowledge of the physical world, one's own mind and memory, and rational limits for observation and reason. This epistemological theorizing is then applied to some of life's most pressing issues, such as how to live and how to understand ourselves and others.

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