How to Know: A Practicalist Conception of Knowledge

by Stephen Cade Hetherington

Some key aspects of contemporary epistemology deserve to be challenged, and How to Know does just that. This book argues that several long-standing presumptions at the heart of the standard analytic conception of knowledge are false, and defends an alternative, a practicalist conception of knowledge. Presents a philosophically original conception of knowledge, at odds with some central tenets of analytic epistemology Offers a dissolution of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0470658126
• ISBN13: 9780470658123
• Release Date: May 2011
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"