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• ISBN-10:  0197609589
• ISBN-13: 9780197609583
• Author: Hilary Kornblith

Epistemology has traditionally been motivated by a desire to respond to skeptical challenges. The skeptic presents an argument for the view that knowledge is impossible, and the theorist of knowledge is called upon to explain why we should think, contrary to the skeptic, that it is genuinely possible to gain knowledge. Traditional theories of knowledge offer responses to the skeptic which fail to draw on the resources of the sciences. This is no simple oversight; there are principled reasons why such resources are thought to be unavailable to the theorist of knowledge. This book takes a different approach. After arguing that appeals to science are not illegitimate in responding to skepticism, this book shows how the sciences offer an illuminating perspective on traditional questions about the nature and possibility of knowledge. This book serves as an introduction to a scientifically informed approach to the theory of knowledge. This book is a vital resource for students and scholars interested in epistemology and its connections to recent development in cognitive science.

Table of contents:

1. The Threat of Skepticism
1.1. What Is a Theory of Knowledge and Why Do We Need One?
1.2. The Argument from Illusion
1.3. Convincing the Skeptic
1.4. Reflective and Unreflective Belief Acquisition
1.5. A Natural Starting Place
1.6. Conclusion
Suggestions for Further Reading
2. The Phenomenon of Knowledge
2.1. The Beginning of an Inquiry
2.2. Children and Nonhuman Animals
2.3. Adult Humans: Unreflective Knowledge
2.4. Adult Humans: Reflective Knowledge
2.5. Social Dimensions of Knowledge
2.6. Conclusion
Suggestions for Further Reading
3. Knowledge from the Outside: The Third-Person Perspective
3.1. What the Third-Person Perspective Has to Offer
3.2. Perception
3.3. Inference
3.4. Conclusion
Suggestions for Further Reading
4. Knowledge from the Inside: The First-Person Perspective
4.1. What the First-Person Perspective Has to Offer
4.2. Deliberation from the Perspective of the Deliberator
4.3. Some Factors Involved in Reflective Checking on Beliefs One Already Holds
4.4. Reflection on What to Believe in the Absence of Preexisting Belief
4.5. Conclusion
Suggestions for Further Reading
5. From the Individual to the Social
5.1. Beyond Individual Cognition
5.2. A Puzzle about the Human Capacity to Reflect on Our Beliefs
5.3. An Adaptationist Hypothesis
5.4. What Reason Is There to Think That This Hypothesis Is Correct?
5.5. A Problem Case
5.6. Conclusion
Suggestions for Further Reading
6. Conclusion: Born to Know
6.1. How Is Knowledge Possible?
6.2. What Is Knowledge?

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