Knowledge and evidence
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Knowledge and evidence
(Cambridge studies in philosophy / general editor, Ernest Sosa)
Cambridge University Press, 1991, c1989
1st pbk. ed
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Bibliography: p. 267-279
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Paul Moser's book defends what has been an unfashionable view in recent epistemology: the foundationalist account of knowledge and justification. Since the time of Plato philosophers have wondered what exactly knowledge is. This book develops a new account of perceptual knowledge which specifies the exact sense in which knowledge has foundations. The author argues that experiential foundations are indeed essential to perceptual knowledge, and he explains what knowledge requires beyond justified true beliefs. In challenging prominent sceptical claims that we have no justified beliefs about the external world, the book outlines a theory of rational belief.
Table of Contents
- Acknowedgments
- Introduction
- 1. Conditions for propositional knowledge
- 2. Minimal epistemic reasons
- 3. Justifying epistemic reasons
- 4. Foundationalism and some alternatives
- 5. Procedural epistemic rationality
- 6. Propositional knowledge
- References
- Index.
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