{"product_id":"the-limits-of-epistemology-hardback-9781509525669","title":"The Limits of Epistemology (Hardback) 9781509525669","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Limits of Epistemology\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eMarkus Gabriel (Author), Alex Englander (Translated by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781509525669, Polity Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 22 November 2019\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e448 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.6 x 15.9 x 3.3 cm, 0.703 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt the centre of modern epistemology lurks the problem of scepticism: how can we know that the forms of our cognition are compatible with the world? How can we state success conditions for knowledge claims without somehow transcending our discursive and fallible nature as knowers?\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e By distinguishing different forms of scepticism, Markus Gabriel shows how all objective knowledge relies on shared discourses and how the essential corrigibility of knowledge claims is a crucial condition of their objectivity. We should understand scepticism not so much as posing a threat, but as offering a vital lesson about the fallibility of discursive thinking. By heeding this lesson, we can begin to reintegrate the solipsistic subject of modern epistemology back into the community of actual knowers.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Taking his cue from Hegel, Wittgenstein and Brandom, Gabriel shows how intentionality as such is a public rather than a private phenomenon. He concedes that the sceptic can prove the necessary finitude of objective knowledge, but denies that this has to lead us into an aporia. Instead, it shows us the limits of the modern project of epistemology. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Through an examination of different kinds of sceptical paradoxes, Gabriel not only demonstrates their indispensable role within epistemological theorising, but also argues for the necessary failure of all totalizing knowledge claims. In this way, epistemology, as the discipline that claims knowledge about knowledge, begins to grasp its own fallibility and, as a result, the true nature of its objectivity.  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The Limits of Epistemology will be of great value to students and scholars of philosophy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePreface to the English Edition                                        \u003cbr\u003e Introduction                                                          \u003cbr\u003e Part I               The Function of Scepticism                       \u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1 Negative Dogmatism and Methodological Scepticism\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2 Kant’s Negative Dogmatism              \u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3 Metaphysical Realism and the Naïve Ontology of Individuals\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4 Conceptual Relativity and the World         \u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5 Direct and Indirect Sceptical Arguments: The Path to Semantic Nihilism                           \u003cbr\u003e Chapter 6 Crispin Wright’s Implosion of Cartesian Scepticism and its Dialectic                                     \u003cbr\u003e Part II              Contextualism and the Finitude of Discourse           \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Chapter 7 Pyrrhonian Scepticism as the Agent of Epistemology\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 8 Contextualism, Normativity and the Possibility of Discursive Determinacy                           \u003cbr\u003e Chapter 9 Private Language and Assertoric Content     \u003cbr\u003e Chapter 10 The Diametrical Opposite of Solipsism \u003cbr\u003e Chapter 11 McDowell’s Disjunctivism as an Anti-Sceptical Strategy\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 12 Stage-Setting and Discourse: The Community in Context\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 13 Solipsism’s Representations and Cartesian Scepticism\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 14 The Failure of Liberal Naturalism’s Metatheory   \u003cbr\u003e Chapter 15 A Final Attempt to Recover the World: Brandom with Hegel\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Philosophy [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Philosophy\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Philosophy%20%5BHP%5D%22\"\u003eHP\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Polity","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52441789989144,"sku":"9781509525669","price":50.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9781509525669.jpg?v=1785025302","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-limits-of-epistemology-hardback-9781509525669","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}