The Limits of Epistemology

by Markus Gabriel

Book Overview

At the centre of modern epistemology lurks the problem of scepticism: how can we know that the forms of our cognition are compatible with the world? How can we state success conditions for knowledge claims without somehow transcending our discursive and fallible nature as knowers?

By distinguishing different forms of scepticism, Markus Gabriel shows how all objective knowledge relies on shared discourses and how the essential corrigibility...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 150952567X
• ISBN13: 9781509525676
• Release Date: January 2020
• Publisher: Polity Press
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.0" x 8.9"