What is knowledge? What, if anything, can we know? Michael Ayers initiates a fresh approach to these questions by recovering the insight in the distinction between 'knowledge' and 'belief' that was common philosophical currency for two millennia after Plato. He argues that knowledge comes only with direct cognitive contact with reality or truth.
What is knowledge? What, if anything, can we know? Michael Ayers initiates a fresh approach to these questions by recovering the insight in the distinction between 'knowledge' and 'belief' that was common philosophical currency for two millennia after Plato. He argues that knowledge comes only with direct cognitive contact with reality or truth.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Michael Ayers is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oxford, a Fellow of the British Academy, and a member of Academia Europea. He was elected as Tutorial Fellow of Wadham College, Oxford, in 1965, and remained there, later as Reader and Professor, until retiring in 2002. Over the course of his career, Ayers has also had several visiting appointments at universities in the USA, including Berkeley. He has published widely on the history and historiography of philosophy, especially of epistemology.
Inhaltsangabe
Preface Part I: Knowledge, Belief and Perception 1: Michael Ayers and Maria Rosa Antognazza: Knowledge and belief from Plato to Locke 2: Perception and primary knowledge. 3: Conceptualism and perceptual knowledge 4: Internal and external objects of cognition Part II: Philosophical Scepticism 5: Scepticism, certainty and defeasibility 6: Scepticism and Externalism 7: Conclusions
Preface Part I: Knowledge, Belief and Perception 1: Michael Ayers and Maria Rosa Antognazza: Knowledge and belief from Plato to Locke 2: Perception and primary knowledge. 3: Conceptualism and perceptual knowledge 4: Internal and external objects of cognition Part II: Philosophical Scepticism 5: Scepticism, certainty and defeasibility 6: Scepticism and Externalism 7: Conclusions
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