The Possibility of Knowledge

by Quassim Cassam

Book Overview

How is knowledge of the external world possible? How is knowledge of other minds possible? How is a priori knowledge possible? These are all examples of how-possible questions in epistemology. Quassim Cassam explains how such questions arise and how they should be answered.

In general, we ask how knowledge, or knowledge of some specific kind, is possible when we encounter obstacles to its existence or acquisition. So the question is: how is...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199562393
• ISBN13: 9780199562398
• Release Date: April 2009
• Publisher: OUP Oxford
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 8.3"