Introduction to Contemporary Epistemology

by Jonathan Dancy

Book Overview

Offers the student a well-organized presentation of material relating to scepticism, to various philosophical accounts of knowledge and justification, to theories of perception, and more. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0631136223
• ISBN13: 9780631136224
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

Best succinct treatment of contemporary epistemology

This book is exactly what it claims to be: an introduction to the contemporary theory of knowledge (epistemology - what a great word!). Dancy presents an excellent - thorough and lucid - account of the problems connected with the nature of knowledge, how those problems have been approached and dealt with and the advantages and disadvantages of the different approaches such as coherentism and foundationalism. This book, though it is certainly not a breezy novel, is well worth reading if you are a reasonably intelligent thinking person and want to understand how it is that we can know things and, more importantly, what it means to say that we know things or have knowledge.