Three Conversations about Knowing |
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Author:
| Rosenberg, Jay F. |
Series title: | Hackett Philosophical Dialogues Ser. |
ISBN: | 978-0-87220-537-6 |
Publication Date: | Sep 2000 |
Publisher: | Hackett Publishing Company, Incorporated
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Book Format: | Hardback |
List Price: | USD $21.00 |
Book Description:
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In Jay Rosenberg's lively and accessible introductory dialogue, four bright students explore a number of the central topics and problems of contemporary epistemology--skepticism and certainty, internalism and externalism, foundationalism and coherentism, and the nature and limits of justification. Their wide-ranging discussion highlights many of the vivid and imaginative thought-experiments that have shaped both classical and contemporary reflections on the scope and character of our...
More DescriptionIn Jay Rosenberg's lively and accessible introductory dialogue, four bright students explore a number of the central topics and problems of contemporary epistemology--skepticism and certainty, internalism and externalism, foundationalism and coherentism, and the nature and limits of justification. Their wide-ranging discussion highlights many of the vivid and imaginative thought-experiments that have shaped both classical and contemporary reflections on the scope and character of our knowledge of the world.