Hilary Kornblith (Amherst University of Massachusetts)

Second Thoughts and the Epistemological Enterprise

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Collected essays showing how social psychology illuminates epistemological problems, focusing on issues of self-knowledge and the nature of human reason. The book features specific examples of sceptical problems and also includes two entirely new essays. It will appeal to pyschologists as well philosophers.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 276
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. März 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 406g
• ISBN-13: 9781108724128
• ISBN-10: 1108724124
• Artikelnr.: 60715289

Autorenporträt

Hilary Kornblith is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He has written widely on topics in epistemology, philosophy of mind, and related areas, and is the author of Inductive Inference and Its Natural Ground (1995), Knowledge and Its Place in Nature (2002), On Reflection (2012), and A Naturalistic Epistemology: Selected Papers (2014).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Introspection and misdirection
2. What is it like to be me?
3. Distrusting reason
4. The impurity of reason
5. What reflective endorsement cannot do
6. Belief in the face of controversy
7. Naturalism vs. the first-person perspective
8. Is there room for armchair theorizing in epistemology?
9. The role of reasons in epistemology
10. Doxastic justification is fundamental
11. Our sense of self
12. Our rational nature
Index.