William J Talbott

Gebundenes Buch

Learning from Our Mistakes

Epistemology for the Real World

Beschreibung

In Learning from Our Mistakes: Epistemology for the Real World, William J. Talbott provides a new framework for understanding the history of Western epistemology and uses it to propose a new way of understanding rational belief that can be applied to pressing social and political issues. This framework is used to articulate a new theory of prejudice and a new diagnosis of the sources of inequity in the U.S. criminal justice system, as well as insight into the proliferation of tribal and fascist epistemologies based on alt-facts and alt-truth.

Autor

William J. Talbott is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Washington, Seattle. He teaches and has published articles in epistemology; moral and political philosophy, including the philosophy of human rights; rational choice theory; and the philosophy of law. He is the author of a book on reliabilist epistemology, The Reliability of the Cognitive Mechanism and two books in the philosophy of human rights: Which Rights Should Be Universal? and Human Rights and Human Well-Being (both OUP).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. September 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 163mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 635g
• ISBN-13: 9780197567654
• ISBN-10: 0197567657
• Artikelnr.: 61937037