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ISBN
9780674416116
Book Title
Sources of Knowledge : on the Concept of a RATIONAL Capacity for Knowledge
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Item Length
9.2 in
Publication Year
2017
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Item Height
1.1 in
Author
Andrea Kern
Genre
Philosophy
Topic
Epistemology, Metaphysics, Movements / Rationalism
Item Weight
20.5 Oz
Item Width
6.1 in
Number of Pages
304 Pages

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How can human beings, who are liable to error, possess knowledge? The skeptic finds this question impossible to answer. If we can err, then it seems the grounds on which we believe do not rule out that we are wrong. Most contemporary epistemologists agree with the skeptic that we can never believe on grounds that exclude error. Sources of Knowledge moves beyond this predicament by demonstrating that some major problems of contemporary philosophy have their roots in the lack of a metaphysical category that is fundamental to our self-understanding: the category of a rational capacity for knowledge. Andrea Kern argues that we can disarm skeptical doubt by conceiving knowledge as an act of a ratio-nal capacity. This enables us to appreciate human fallibility without falling into skepticism, for it allows us to understand how we can form beliefs about the world on grounds that exclude error. Knowledge is a fundamental capacity of the human mind. Human beings, as such, are knowers. In this way, Sources of Knowledge seeks to understand knowledge from within our self-understanding as knowers. It develops a metaphysics of the human mind as existing through knowledge of itself, which knowledge--as the human being is finite--takes the form of a capacity. Regaining the concept of a rational capacity for knowledge, Kern makes a powerful and original contribution to philosophy that reinvigorates the tradition of Aristotle and Kant--thinkers whose relevance for contemporary epistemology has yet to be fully appreciated.

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Publisher
Harvard University Press
ISBN-10
0674416112
ISBN-13
9780674416116
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Book Title
Sources of Knowledge : on the Concept of a RATIONAL Capacity for Knowledge
Number of Pages
304 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2017
Topic
Epistemology, Metaphysics, Movements / Rationalism
Genre
Philosophy
Author
Andrea Kern
Format
Hardcover

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Item Height
1.1 in
Item Weight
20.5 Oz
Item Length
9.2 in
Item Width
6.1 in

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23
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This is an excellent book. It is lucid, forceful, and rich in thought-provoking ideas. I believe it is one of the most interesting and potentially significant contributions to the field of epistemology of the last decade. Given the richness of its discussion, however, Kerne(tm)s book will be interesting not just to professional epistemologists, but to a wide philosophical readership., This is an extraordinary, daring book. It is an original and powerful contribution to epistemology that reorients, or gets beneath, a number of debates that have shaped the discipline in the last few decades. It reaches beyond the limits of epistemology, locating its results concerning human knowledge within a metaphysics of the human mind, a metaphysics that articulates the self-understanding internal to our existence., This is an excellent book. It is lucid, forceful, and rich in thought-provoking ideas. I believe it is one of the most interesting and potentially significant contributions to the field of epistemology of the last decade. Given the richness of its discussion, however, Kern's book will be interesting not just to professional epistemologists, but to a wide philosophical readership., This is an excellent book. It is lucid, forceful, and rich in thought-provoking ideas. I believe it is one of the most interesting and potentially significant contributions to the field of epistemology of the last decade. Given the richness of its discussion, however, Kern'e(tm)s book will be interesting, not just to professional epistemologists, but to a wide philosophical readership.
Lccn
2016-015033
Dewey Decimal
121.3
Lc Classification Number
Bd181.K3913 2017
Copyright Date
2017

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