After Certainty: A History of Our Epistemic Ideals and Illusions

by Robert Pasnau

Book Overview

No part of philosophy is as disconnected from its history as is epistemology. After Certainty offers a reconstruction of that history, understood as a series of changing expectations about the cognitive ideal that beings such as us might hope to achieve in a world such as this. The story begins with Aristotle and then looks at how his epistemic program was developed through later antiquity and into the Middle Ages, before being dramatically reformulated...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198852185
• ISBN13: 9780198852186
• Release Date: March 2020
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.7" x 9.6"