Knowledge and Its Limits

Knowledge and Its Limits
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Publisher : OUP UK
Total Pages : 356
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ISBN-10 : 019925656X
ISBN-13 : 9780199256563
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Book Synopsis Knowledge and Its Limits by : Timothy Williamson

Download or read book Knowledge and Its Limits written by Timothy Williamson and published by OUP UK. This book was released on 2002 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Knowledge and its Limits presents a systematic new conception of knowledge as a fundamental kind of mental state sensitive to the knower's environment. It makes a major contribution to the debate between externalist and internalist philosophies of mind, and breaks radically with the epistemological tradition of analysing knowledge in terms of true belief. The theory casts light on a wide variety of philosophical issues: the problem of scepticism, the nature of evidence, probability and assertion, the dispute between realism and anti-realism and the paradox of the surprise examination. Williamson relates the new conception to structural limits on knowledge which imply that what can be known never exhausts what is true. The arguments are illustrated by rigorous models based on epistemic logic and probability theory. The result is a new way of doing epistemology for the twenty-first century.


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