Epistemic issues in pragmatic perspective
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Epistemic issues in pragmatic perspective
（American philosophy）
Lexington Books, c2018
- : cloth
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
This book presents a nonstandard approach to epistemology. Where standard epistemology generally focuses on the certain knowledge the Greeks called episteme, the present focus is on some less assured modes of information. Its deliberations will focus on such cognitively suboptimal processes as conjecture, guesswork, and plausible supposition. This shift of focus has implications for virtually every sector of information management, and the book's instigations presented here will explore some of them. Throughout the rule of pragmatic considerations stand in the foreground.As the book's deliberations set out in detail, the nature of our knowledge of reality is inherently conditioned by the fact of its beings the product of what is, at best and at most, a matter of rational guesswork. And so as regards our knowledge, we had best adopt the pragmatic optimism of expecting-and hoping-that our best is good enough.
Table of Contents
PREFACE
INTRODUCTION
Chapter 1: Sensible Conjecture
Chapter 2: Imprecision
Chapter 3: Truth-Contextuality and Plausibility
Chapter 4: Managing Imperfect Information
Chapter 5: Common Sense
Chapter 6: Terminating Explanatory Regress
Chapter 7: Quantitative Epistemology
Chapter 8: On Kinds of Things
Chapter 9: Prediction and Knowability
Chapter 10: Cognitive Fashions
Chapter 11: Problems of Absolute Truth
Chapter 12: Unethical Beliefs, Reprehensible Opinions
Chapter 13: Culpable Ignorance
Chapter 14: Epistemic Triage
Chapter 15: Inconceivable Possibilities
Chapter 16: Optimalism in Explaining the Nature of Things
Chapter 17: Conclusion
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