What Is This Thing Called Knowledge? by Pritchard, Duncan -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Page What is this Thing Called Knowledge? What is this Thing Called? Title Copyright Dedication Contents Preface to the Fourth Edition How to Use This Book Part I: What is Knowledge?

1 Some Preliminaries

Types of Knowledge Two Basic Requirements of Knowledge: Truth and Belief Knowing Versus Merely ‘Getting It Right’ A Brief Remark on Truth

2 The Value of Knowledge

Why Care About Knowledge? The Instrumental Value of True Belief The Value of Knowledge The Statues of Daedalus Is Some Knowledge Non-Instrumentally Valuable?

3 Defining Knowledge

The Problem of the Criterion Methodism and Particularism Knowledge As Justified True Belief Gettier Cases Responding to the Gettier Cases Back to the Problem of the Criterion

4 The Structure of Knowledge

Knowledge and Justification The Enigmatic Nature of Justification Agrippa’S Trilemma Infinitism Coherentism Foundationalism

5 Rationality

Rationality, Justification, and Knowledge Epistemic Rationality and the Goal of Truth The Goal(S) of Epistemic Rationality The (Un)Importance of Epistemic Rationality Rationality and Responsibility Epistemic Internalism/Externalism

6 Virtues and Faculties

Reliabilism A ‘Gettier’ Problem For Reliabilism Virtue Epistemology Virtue Epistemology and the Externalism/Internalism Distinction

Part II: Where Does Knowledge Come From?

7 Perception

The Problem of Perceptual Knowledge Indirect Realism Idealism Transcendental Idealism Direct Realism

8 Testimony and Memory

The Problem of Testimonial Knowledge Reductionism Credulism The Problem of Memorial Knowledge

9 A Priority and Inference

A Priori and Empirical Knowledge The Interdependence of A Priori and Empirical Knowledge Introspective Knowledge Deduction Induction Abduction

10 The Problem of Induction

The Problem of Induction Responding to the Problem of Induction Living With the Problem of Induction I: Falsification Living With the Problem of Induction Ii: Pragmatism

Part III: What Kinds of Knowledge Are There?

11 Scientific Knowledge

What is Science? Science Versus Pseudo-Science The Structure of Scientific Revolutions Concluding Remarks

12 Religious Knowledge

is There Any Religious Knowledge? The Evidentialist Challenge to Religious Knowledge Natural Theology Fideism Reformed Epistemology

13 Moral Knowledge

The Problem of Moral Knowledge Scepticism About Moral Facts Scepticism About Moral Knowledge The Nature of Moral Knowledge I: Classical Foundationalism The Nature of Moral Knowledge Ii: Alternative Conceptions

Part IV: How Can the Theory of Knowledge Be Applied to Particular Domains?

14 Technology

Our Increasing Dependence on Technology Extended Knowledge? Intellectual Virtue and Extended Knowledge

15 Education

The Epistemic Goals of Education Intellectual Virtue and Education Technology and Education

16 Law

The Epistemic Goals of the Law Adversarial Versus Investigatory Trials Legal Evidence

17 Politics

Democratic Politics and Informed Citizens Bullshit ‘Post-Fact’ Politics Epistemic Injustice

Part V: Do We Have Any Knowledge?

18 Scepticism About Other Minds

The Problem of Other Minds The Argument From Analogy A Problem For the Argument From Analogy Two Versions of the Problem of Other Minds Perceiving Someone Else’S Mind

19 Radical Scepticism

The Radical Sceptical Paradox Scepticism and Closure Mooreanism Contextualism

20 Truth and Objectivity

Objectivity, Anti-Realism, and Scepticism Truth As the Goal of Inquiry Authenticity and the Value of Truth Relativism

General Further Reading Glossary of Terms Glossary of Key Examples Index

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