An Introduction to Epistemology,9780631202134

An Introduction to Epistemology

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Edition: 1st
ISBN13: 9780631202134
ISBN10: 0631202137
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1996-12-09
Publisher(s): Wiley-Blackwell
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Summary

This book is the ideal introduction to the fundamental problems and issues of epistemology. It assumes no prior knowledge of the subject and is valuable both as a core text for beginning students and as support material for more advanced courses.

Author Biography

Charles Landesman is Professor of Philosophy at Hunter College and The Graduate School of the City University of New York. Previous titles by the author include Discourse and its Presuppositions (1972), Colour and Consciousness (1989), and The Eye and the Mind (1993).

Table of Contents

Introduction
Sense Awareness
The Original Understanding
Sense Awareness and Direct Realism
Representative Realism
Sound
Visual Sense Awareness
Appearance and Reality
Primary and Secondary Qualities
Color
Color Skepticism
Observation and Acquaintance
Images
The Evidence of the Senses
Skepticism
Skepticism with Regard to the Senses
Realism and Skepticism
Realism and Idealism
Idealism and Constructivism
Idealism and Causal Relations
A Proof of the External World
Conceptual Frameworks and Material Objects
Knowledge of the External World
Doubts about the Method of Doubt
Self-Knowledge
Beyond Sensitive Knowledge
The Cogito and the Problem of Self-Knowledge
The Disappearance of the Self
Reflection
Mental Content
Propositional Attitudes
Privileged Access
Abstract Objects and Mental Content
Conceptual Representation
Beyond Basic Belief
The Reliability of Basic Beliefs
Derived Belief
Truth
Evidence and Inductive Skepticism
The Rationale of Induction
Observation and Transcendent Inference
Scientific Realism
The Grounds of Anti-Realism
Pragmatism and Realism
A Priori Knowledge
Intuitive Knowledge
Trifling, or Analytic, Propositions
Instructive, or Synthetic, Propositions
Logic and Analyticity
Ontology and the A Priori
Skepticism about Meaning
Over Minds
Epistemology
Epistemology
The Ethics of Belief
Bibliography
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