Keith DeRose

The Appearance of Ignorance

Knowledge, Skepticism, and Context, Volume 2

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Produktbeschreibung

Keith DeRose presents, develops, and defends original solutions to two of the stickiest problems in epistemology: skeptical hypotheses and the lottery problem. He deploys a powerful version of contextualism, the view that the epistemic standards for the attribution of knowledge vary with context.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. März 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 157mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 680g
• ISBN-13: 9780199564477
• ISBN-10: 0199564477
• Artikelnr.: 48915680

Autorenporträt

Keith DeRose is Allison Foundation Professor of Philosophy at Yale University. He works mainly in epistemology, philosophy of language, and philosophy of religion. He received his PhD from UCLA, and taught at New York University and Rice University before Yale. He is the author of The Case for Contextualism: Knowledge, Assertion, and Context, Volume 1 (OUP, 2009)

Inhaltsangabe

* 1: Solving the Skeptical Problem
* 2: Moorean Methodology: Was the Skeptic Doomed to Inevitable Defeat?
* 3: Two Substantively Moorean Responses and the Project of Refuting
Skepticism
* 4: Contextualism and Skepticism: The Defeat of the Bold Skeptic
* 5: Lotteries, Insensitivity, and Closure
* 6: Insensitivity
* 7: How Do We Know that We're Not Brains in Vats? Toward A Picture of
Knowledge
* Appendices