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Knowledge : a very short introduction / Jennifer Nagel.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Publication details: [Oxford] : Oxford University Press, (c)2014.Description: pages : illustrations (black and white)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
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  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780191779916
  • 9780199661268
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • BD161 .K569 2014
  • BD161
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Contents:
2. Scepticism -- 3. Rationalism and empiricism -- 4. The analysis of knowledge -- 5. Internalism and externalism -- 6. Testimony -- 7. Shifting standards? -- 8. Knowing about knowing.
Summary: Human beings naturally desire knowledge. But what is knowledge? Is it the same as having an opinion? Highlighting the major developments in the theory of knowledge from Ancient Greece to the present day, Jennifer Nagel uses a number of simple everyday examples to explore the key themes and current debates of epistemology.
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Circulating Book (checkout times vary with patron status) Circulating Book (checkout times vary with patron status) G. Allen Fleece Library CIRCULATING COLLECTION RES BD161.N147.K569 2014 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available PHI 3515 | Digital/Print Sharing - 2 chapters permitted 31923001718994

Includes bibliographies and index.

1. Introduction -- 2. Scepticism -- 3. Rationalism and empiricism -- 4. The analysis of knowledge -- 5. Internalism and externalism -- 6. Testimony -- 7. Shifting standards? -- 8. Knowing about knowing.

Human beings naturally desire knowledge. But what is knowledge? Is it the same as having an opinion? Highlighting the major developments in the theory of knowledge from Ancient Greece to the present day, Jennifer Nagel uses a number of simple everyday examples to explore the key themes and current debates of epistemology.

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