Michael Hannon (Assistant Profes Assistant Professor of Philosophy

What's the Point of Knowledge?

A Function-First Epistemology

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book is about knowledge and its value. The central hypothesis is that humans think and speak of knowing in order to identify reliable informants, which is vital for human survival, cooperation, and flourishing. This simple idea is used to answer an array of complex and consequential philosophical questions.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Januar 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 159mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 652g
• ISBN-13: 9780190914721
• ISBN-10: 0190914726
• Artikelnr.: 54435736

Autorenporträt

Michael Hannon is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Nottingham. After receiving his PhD from the University of Cambridge, he served as Deputy Director of the Institute of Philosophy at the University of London. His research in epistemology covers topics such as skepticism, fallibilism, the value of knowledge, and the role of truth in politics. He founded the Political Epistemology Network and holds a British Academy Rising Star Engagement Award for his project on political epistemology.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Chapter 1. Methodologies in Epistemology
Chapter 2. The Point of Knowledge
Chapter 3. The Value of Fallible Knowledge
Chapter 4. Impure Knowledge
Chapter 5. Pluralism about Knowledge
Chapter 6. Epistemic Diversity
Chapter 7. Epistemic Pragmatism
Chapter 8. Skepticism and the Point of Knowledge
Chapter 9. What's the Point of Understanding?
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