Binding: Paperback
Description: One of the world's leading epistemologists provides a sophisticated revisionist introduction to the subject In this concise book one of the world's leading epistemologists provides a sophisticated revisionist introduction to the problem of knowledge in Western philosophy. Modern and contemporary accounts of epistemology tend to focus on limited questions of knowledge and skepticism such as how we can know the external world other minds the past through memory the future through induction or the world's depth and structure through inference. This book steps back for a better view of the more general issues posed by the ancient Greek Pyrrhonists. Returning to and illuminating this older broader epistemological tradition Ernest Sosa develops an original account of the subject giving it substance not with Cartesian theology but with science and common sense. Descartes is a part of this ancient tradition but he goes beyond it by considering not just whether knowledge is possible in the first place but also how we can properly attain it. In Cartesian epistemology Sosa finds a virtue - theoretic account one that he extends beyond the Cartesian context. Once epistemology is viewed in this light many of its problems can be solved or fall away. The result is an important reevaluation of epistemology that will be essential reading for students and teachers.
Title: Epistemology
Author(s): Sosa Ernest
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Barcode: 9780691183268
Pages: 256 Pages
Publication Date: 12/4/2018
Series: Princeton Foundations of Contemporary Philosophy
Category: Philosophy: Epistemology & Theory Of Knowledge