Beyond "Justification"

by William P. Alston

Book Overview

Much of the writing in Anglo-American epistemology in the twentieth century focused on the conditions for beliefs being "justified." In a book that seeks to shift the ground of debate within theory of knowledge, William P. Alston finds that the century-long search for a correct account of the nature and conditions of epistemic justification misses the point. Alston calls for that search to be suspended and for talk of epistemic justification to...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801473322
• ISBN13: 9780801473326
• Release Date: October 2006
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 274 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.4" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher