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Knowledge and the State of Nature: An Essay in Conceptual Synthesis

By Edward Craig

Book information

Publisher
Clarendon Press
Year
1999
ISBN
0198238797, 9780198238799, 0198242433, 9780198242437
LCC
BD161 .C67 1990
Open Library ID
OL1874543M
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
213 kB (218225 bytes)
Pages
184\0
Scanned
no
Time added
2012-03-17 06:00:00

Description

In this illuminating study Craig argues that the standard practice of analyzing the concept of knowledge has radical defects--arbitrary restriction of the subject matter and risky theoretical presuppositions. He proposes a new approach similar to the "state-of-nature" method found in political theory, building the concept up from a hypothesis about its social function and the needs it fulfills. Shedding light on much that philosophers have written about knowledge, its analysis and the obstacles to its analysis, and the debate over skepticism, this compelling work will be of interest to students and scholars of epistemology and the philosophy of language.

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