{"product_id":"knowledge-in-perspective-selected-essays-in-epistemology-paperback-9780521396431","title":"Knowledge in Perspective; Selected Essays in Epistemology (Paperback) 9780521396431","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eKnowledge in Perspective\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eSelected Essays in Epistemology\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eErnest Sosa collects essays, written over the last 25 years, on the scope and nature of human knowledge.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eErnest Sosa (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521396431, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback, published 29 March 1991\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e316 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.7 x 15.2 x 2.4 cm, 0.433 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"Ernest Sosa has been one of the most prominent American epistemologists in the last few decades, and it is good to have his most important epistemological essays available in a single volume, arranged, mostly, in chronological order.  There are many treasures here, including strictures on an 'argumenative' account of justification and knowledge, acute criticisms of coherence theory, an important distinction between what he calls 'formal foundationalism' and 'substantive foundationalism', some salutary pooh-poohing of fashionable versions of 'naturalized epistemology', a useful discussion of the epistemology of testimony, a plea for the importance of 'abduction', and much more.\"   William P. Alston, Mind |x x\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eEver since Plato, philosophers have faced one central question: what is the scope and nature of human knowledge? In this volume the distinguished philosopher Ernest Sosa collects essays on this subject written over a period of twenty-five years.  All the major topics of contemporary epistemology are covered:  the nature of propositional knowledge; externalism versus internalism; foundationalism versus coherentism; and the problem of the criterion.   'Sosa is one of the most prominent and most important epistemologists on the current American scene.'  William P. Alston, Syracuse University\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSources and acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e Part I. What is Knowledge, And How is it Possible? 1. The analysis of 'knowledge that p'\u003cbr\u003e 2. How do you know?\u003cbr\u003e 3. On our knowledge of matters of fact\u003cbr\u003e 4. Presuppositions of empirical knowledge\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Theories of Justification: 5. Epistemology today: a perspective in retrospect\u003cbr\u003e 6. Nature unmirrored, epistemology naturalized\u003cbr\u003e 7. Theories of justification: old doctrines newly defended\u003cbr\u003e 8. Reliabilism and intellectual virtue\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Intellectual Virtue and Epistemic Perspective: A View Presented: 9. The foundations of foundationalism\u003cbr\u003e 10. The raft and the pyramid: coherence versus foundations in the theory of knowledge\u003cbr\u003e 11. The coherence of virtue and the virtue of coherence\u003cbr\u003e 12. Testimony and coherence\u003cbr\u003e Part IV. Intellectual Virtue in Perspective: The View Developed: 13. Knowledge and intellectual virtue\u003cbr\u003e 14. Methodology and apt belief\u003cbr\u003e 15. Equilibrium in coherence?\u003cbr\u003e 16. Intellectual virtue in perspective\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Philosophy: epistemology \u0026amp; theory of knowledge [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Philosophy: epistemology \u0026amp; theory of knowledge\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Philosophy:%20epistemology%20\u0026amp;%20theory%20of%20knowledge%20%5BHPK%5D%22\"\u003eHPK\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46005432451352,"sku":"9780521396431","price":41.29,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521396431i_3d6d9d93-e392-40fa-b5a4-3562392552aa.jpg?v=1691381059","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/knowledge-in-perspective-selected-essays-in-epistemology-paperback-9780521396431","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}