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ISBN-10 :  0192521941 

ISBN-13 :  9780192521941

Author :  Robert Pasnau 

No part of philosophy is as disconnected from its history as is epistemology. After Certainty offers a reconstruction of that history, understood as a series of changing expectations about the cognitive ideal that beings such as us might hope to achieve in a world such as this. The story begins with Aristotle and then looks at how his epistemic program was developed through later antiquity and into the Middle Ages, before being dramatically reformulated in the seventeenth century. In watching these debates unfold over the centuries, one sees why epistemology has traditionally been embedded within a much larger sphere of concerns about human nature and the reality of the world we live in. It ultimately becomes clear why epistemology today has become a much narrower and specialized field, concerned with the conditions under which it is true to say, that someone knows something. Based on a series of lectures given at Oxford University, Robert Pasnau’s book ranges widely over the history of philosophy, and examines in some detail the rise of science as an autonomous discipline. Ultimately Pasnau argues that we may have no good reasons to suppose ourselves capable of achieving even the most minimal standards for knowledge, and the final chapter concludes with a discussion of faith and hope.

After Certainty: A History of Our Epistemic Ideals and Illusions 1st Table of contents:

Lecture One: The Epistemic Ideal
Introduction
Aristotle’s Ideal Theory
Normative Ideals
The Breakdown of Aristotelian Essentialism
Trading Depth for Precision
Epistemology in the Ascendant
Lecture Two: Evident Certainties
Lexicology
Descartes’s Ideal Theory
The Ideal of Certainty
Degrees of Evidentness
Proportioned Belief
The Limits of Knowledge
Lecture Three: The Sensory Domain
Sensory Ideals
Domains of Privilege
Aristotle’s Relationalism
Aristotelian Realism
The Quantitative Turn
Descartes’s Three Paths
The Ideal of Fidelity
Lecture Four: Ideas and Illusions
How Ideas Become Objects
Introspection
The Argument from Illusion
The Quest for Fidelity
Lecture Five: The Privileged Now
The Anselmian Glance
Many Thoughts at Once
Evidential Force
Descartes’s Privileged Now
Memory’s Testimony
Disprivileging the Present Self
Lecture Six: Deception and Hope
God the Deceiver
God the Deceived
The Dismal Verdict
Hume’s Quietism
Believing Hopefully
Notes
Notes to Lecture One
Notes to Lecture Two
Notes to Lecture Three
Notes to Lecture Four
Notes to Lecture Five
Notes to Lecture Six
Acknowledgments

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