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Pathways to Knowledge: Private and Public
Alvin I. Goldman
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paperback. Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 153 x 230 x 20. Weight in Grams: 388.
How can we know? How can we attain justified belief? These traditional questions in epistemology have inspired philosophers for centuries. Now, in this exceptional work, Alvin Goldman, distinguished scholar and leader in the fields of epistemology and mind, approaches such inquiries as legitimate methods or "pathways" to knowledge. He examines the notion of private and public knowledge, arguing for the epistemic legitimacy of private and introspective methods of gaining knowledge, yet acknowledging the equal importance of social and public mechanisms in the quest for truth. Throughout, he addresses this opposition but proposes a rigorous framework that resolves such tensions, making ... Read more
How can we know? How can we attain justified belief? These traditional questions in epistemology have inspired philosophers for centuries. Now, in this exceptional work, Alvin Goldman, distinguished scholar and leader in the fields of epistemology and mind, approaches such inquiries as legitimate methods or "pathways" to knowledge. He examines the notion of private and public knowledge, arguing for the epistemic legitimacy of private and introspective methods of gaining knowledge, yet acknowledging the equal importance of social and public mechanisms in the quest for truth. Throughout, he addresses this opposition but proposes a rigorous framework that resolves such tensions, making ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Oxford University Press USA United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780195173673
SKU
V9780195173673
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About Alvin I. Goldman
Alvin I. Goldman is Board of Governors Professor of Philosophy and Cognitive Science at Rutgers University. The author of Knowledge in a Social World, Philosophical Applications of Cognitive Science, Epistemology and Cognition, and several other books, he has pioneered many influential ideas that have shaped the contours of contemporary epistemology.
Reviews for Pathways to Knowledge: Private and Public
... a devastating and sustained critique of epistemic internalism ... this comprehensive and, in places, novel critique of internalism could not have come at a better time. On the whole, the discussion in this volume is as subtle and sophisticated as you would expect from a philosopher of Goldman's calibre, with nearly all of the papers in this volume constituting ... Read more