Stephen Hetherington on Epistemology

Knowing, More or Less

Professor Stephen Hetherington (Autor)

Jeremiah Joven Joaquin, Mark Anthony Dacela (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

256 Seiten

2024
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-34474-7 (ISBN)

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Philosophy has long embraced epistemology as one of its central elements. What is knowledge? How do we gain it? Can we gain it? Or do we always deceive ourselves when thinking that we have knowledge? Are we too deeply fallible ever to know something? For centuries, these questions have helped to define and motivate epistemological research. This volume engages strikingly with them, offering some unusual answers.

Stephen Hetherington’s prominent career within epistemology has been a series of bold, varied and provocative arguments and ideas. Bringing together some elements of his unique body of writing for the first time, this collection features previously published as well as new material displaying and extending some of his highly original approaches to key issues including knowledge, justification, fallibility, scepticism and the Gettier Problem.

Advancing our understanding of the systemic nature of Hetherington’s thinking, Stephen Hetherington on Epistemology presents his distinctive perspective on some of philosophy’s central questions about knowledge – an inviting blend of forensic detail and ‘big picture’ proposals.

Stephen Hetherington is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. Jeremiah Joven Joaquin is Professor of Philosophy at De La Salle University, Philippines. Mark Anthony Dacela is Associate Professor of Philosophy at De La Salle University, Philippines.

Editorial Introduction: Interview with Stephen Hetherington
1. Epistemic Internalism’s Dilemma
2. Is Epistemically Adequate Epistemology Possible?
3. Elusive Epistemological Justification
4. Gettieristic Scepticism
5. Epistemic Disaster Averted
6. Knowing Failably and Knowing Imperfectly
7. Sceptical Possibilities? No Worries
8. Knowledge That Works: A Tale of Two Conceptual Models
9. Knowledge as Potential for Action
10. Skeptical Challenges and Knowing Actions
11. Some Fallibilist Knowledge: Questioning Knowledge-Attributions and Open Knowledge
12. The Luck/Knowledge Incompatibility Thesis
13. The Redundancy Problem: From Knowledge-Infallibilism to Knowledge-Minimalism
14. And Next?
15. A Life in Philosophy

Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	30.04.2024
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Erkenntnistheorie / Wissenschaftstheorie
ISBN-10	1-350-34474-5 / 1350344745
ISBN-13	978-1-350-34474-7 / 9781350344747
Zustand	Neuware