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OverviewPhilosophy 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Professor Stephen Hetherington , Jeremiah Joven Joaquin , Mark Anthony DacelaPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic ISBN: 9781350344747ISBN 10: 1350344745 Pages: 256 Publication Date: 16 May 2024 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsEditorial 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 IndexReviewsEpistemic principles can and must satisfy their own strictures. Knowledge is an all-or-nothing affair. Gettierized individuals fail to know. Skepticism is well-founded. Hetherington demurs, arguing that if epistemology abandons these assumptions, knowledge is achievable, gradable, realized in practice, consonant with epistemic vulnerability. The result is a radical, powerful reconception of epistemology. * Catherine Z. Elgin, Professor of the Philosophy of Education, Harvard University, USA * This is a truly wonderful collection of challenging essays. They really bring to the fore the central, Fallibilist core of Hetherington’s unique epistemology. An attitude which, in a field whose contemporary climate is still regulated by fashionistas and cliquey citation practices, continues to be a breath of fresh air. * Anthony Booth, Professor of Ethics and Epistemology, University of Sussex, UK * Epistemic principles can and must satisfy their own strictures. Knowledge is an all-or-nothing affair. Gettierized individuals fail to know. Skepticism is well-founded. Hetherington demurs, arguing that if epistemology abandons these assumptions, knowledge is achievable, gradable, realized in practice, consonant with epistemic vulnerability. The result is a radical, powerful reconception of epistemology. * Catherine Z. Elgin, Professor of the Philosophy of Education, Harvard University, USA * This is a truly wonderful collection of challenging essays. They really bring to the fore the central, Fallibilist core of Hetherington’s unique epistemology. An attitude which, in a field whose contemporary climate is still regulated by fashionistas and cliquey citation practices, continues to be a breath of fresh air * Anthony Booth, Professor of Ethics and Epistemology, University of Sussex, UK * Author InformationStephen 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. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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