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Knowledge and Its Limits

By Timothy Williamson

Book information

Year
2002
ISBN
019925656X, 9780199256563, 0198250436, 9780198250432, 9780191520242
Open Library ID
OL7398292M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (2980389 bytes)
Pages
353\353
Orientation
no
Scanned
no
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

Knowledge and its Limits presents a systematic new conception of knowledge as a kind of mental stage sensitive to the knower's environment. It makes a major contribution to the debate between externalist and internalist philosophies of mind, and breaks radically with the epistemological tradition of analyzing knowledge in terms of true belief. The theory casts new light on such philosophical problems as scepticism, evidence, probability and assertion, realism and anti-realism, and the limits of what can be known. The arguments are illustrated by rigorous models based on epistemic logic and probability theory. The result is a new way of doing epistemology and a notable contribution to the philosophy of mind.

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