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Introduction to Contemporary Epistemology Jonathan Dancy

Introduction to Contemporary Epistemology By Jonathan Dancy

Introduction to Contemporary Epistemology by Jonathan Dancy


Summary

Offers the student a well-organized presentation of material relating to scepticism, to various philosophical accounts of knowledge and justification, to theories of perception, and more.

Introduction to Contemporary Epistemology Summary

Introduction to Contemporary Epistemology by Jonathan Dancy

"Offers the student a clear and well-organized presentation of material relating to scepticism, to various philosophical accounts of knowledge and justification, to theories of perception, and much more...Dancy has written an ambitious book...He gives both the student and the professional much to think about." - "Mind".

Introduction to Contemporary Epistemology Reviews

"Offers the student a clear and well-organized presentation of material relating to scepticism, to various philosophical accounts of knowledge and justification, to theories of perception, and much more... Dancy has written an ambitious book... He gives both the student and the professional much to think about." Mind

About Jonathan Dancy

Jonathan Dancy is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Reading and author of Berkeley: An Introduction (Blackwell, 1987) and Moral Reasons (Blackwell, 1993), and editor of A Companion to Epistemology (with Ernest Sosa, Blackwell, 1992), Reading Parfit (Blackwell, 1997), and Normativity (Blackwell, 2000).

Table of Contents

Preface. Introduction. Part I: Knowledge: 1. Scepticism. 2. Knowledge. 3. The Conditional Theory of Knowledge. Part II: Justification: 4. Foundationalism. 5. Foundationalism and Other Minds. 6. Empiricism and Theories of Meaning. 7. Holism and Indeterminacy. 8. Coherence Theories. 9. Coherence, Justification and Knowledge. Part III: Forms of Knowledge: 10. Theories of Perception. 11. Perception: A Choice of a Theory. 12. Memory. 13. Induction. 14. A Priori Knowledge. 15. Is Epistemology Possible? References. Index.

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GOR009006423
9780631136224
0631136223
Introduction to Contemporary Epistemology by Jonathan Dancy
Used - Like New
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd
1985-06-18
272
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