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Medieval and Early Modern Epistemology: After Certainty

By Gyula Klima , Alex Hall , Martin Klein (eds.)

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Year
2020
ISBN
1527542734, 9781527542730
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1277322 bytes)
Series
Proceedings of the Society for Medieval Logic and Metaphysics, 17
Edition
1
Pages
112\107
Time added
2023-03-24 18:09:39

Description

This author-meets-critics volume about Robert Pasnaus After Certainty treats the history of epistemology, from Aristotle to the present. Pasnau presents this history as a gradual lowering of expectations regarding certain knowledge, the culmination of a sea change dating to the early-modern rejection of Aristotelian essentialism. The result, he concludes, is that contemporary epistemology is, more than any other branch of philosophy, estranged from its tradition. Pasnaus After Certainty draws conclusions that are not just historical, but also systematic, an effort that led to a 2018 Parisian symposium to evaluate the text, collected here as a volume that stands alone as an intriguing work on the history of epistemology or together with After Certainty as an invaluable companion piece.

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