John Greco

The Transmission of Knowledge

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the relations and structures which enable and inhibit the sharing of knowledge within and across epistemic communities.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 260
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. August 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 156mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 464g
• ISBN-13: 9781108472623
• ISBN-10: 1108472621
• Artikelnr.: 59257607

Autorenporträt

John Greco holds the McDevitt Chair in Philosophy at Georgetown University, Washington DC. His publications include Putting Skeptics in their Place: The Nature of Skeptical Arguments and their Role in Philosophical Inquiry (Cambridge, 2000), and Achieving Knowledge: A Virtue-Theoretic Account of Epistemic Normativity (Cambridge, 2010). He is co-editor (with Christoph Kelp) of Virtue-Theoretic Epistemology: New Methods and Approaches (Cambridge, forthcoming).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: testimony and the transmission of knowledge
2. The framework presented: testimonial knowledge and the flow of information
3. Joint agency and the role of trust in testimonial knowledge
4. Social norms and social sensibilities
5. A unified account of generation and transmission
6. The framework extended: common knowledge
7. Education and the transmission of understanding
8. Reductionism and big science
9. Social religious epistemology
Appendix: the garbage problem.