Basic knowledge and conditions on knowledge /
"How do we know what we know? In this stimulating and rigorous book, Mark McBride explores two sets of issues in contemporary epistemology: the problems that warrant transmission poses for the category of basic knowledge; and the status of conclusive reasons, sensitivity, and safety as conditio...
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge :
Open Book Publishers,
[2017]
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Table of Contents:
- Part one. Exploring basic knowledge
- Reflections on Moore's 'proof'
- First reflections on the problem of easy knowledge
- The problem of easy knowledge: towards a solution
- Evidence and transmission failure
- A puzzle for dogmatism
- Part two. Conditions on knowledge: conclusive reasons, sensitivity, and safety
- Conclusive reasons
- Sensitivity
- Safety
- Safety: an application.