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

By Edward Craig

Book information

Publisher
Oxford University Press, USA
Year
1991
ISBN
9780198242437, 0198242433
LCC
BD161 .C67 1990
Open Library ID
OL1874543M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
9 MB (9450114 bytes)
Pages
182\182
Library
avaxhome.ws
Time added
2010-05-31 15:29:46

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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