How to Know: A Practicalist Conception of Knowledge

Hetherington, Stephen

Some key aspects of contemporary epistemology deserve to be challenged, and How to Know does just that. This book argues that several long-standing presumptions at the heart of the standard analytic conception of knowledge are false, and defends an alternative, a practicalist conception of knowledge.

• Presents a philosophically original conception of knowledge, at odds with some central tenets of analytic epistemology
• Offers a dissolution of epistemology’s infamous Gettier problem — explaining why the supposed problem was never really a problem in the first place.
• Defends an unorthodox conception of the relationship between knowledge-that and knowledge-how, understanding knowledge-that as a kind of knowledge-how.

Details

Published by: Wiley-Blackwell

Publication Date: 2011-05-17

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9780470658123

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Dimensions: 236.2cm x160.0cm

Pages: 304.0