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Introduction to Philosophy Epistemology Brian Barnett

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Open textbook libraryDistributor: Minneapolis, MN Open Textbook LibraryPublisher: [Place of publication not identified] Rebus Community [2021]Copyright date: ©2021Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781989014257
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • B72
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Contents:
I. Traditional Epistemology -- 1. The Analysis of Knowledge -- 2. Epistemic Justification -- 3. Sources of Knowledge: Rationalism, Empiricism, and the Kantian Synthesis -- 4. Skepticism -- II. Expanded Epistemology -- 5. Epistemic Value, Duty, and Virtue -- 6. Epistemology, Probability, and Science -- 7. Social Epistemology -- 8. Feminist Epistemologies
Subject: Introduction to Philosophy: Epistemology engages first-time philosophy readers on a guided tour through the core concepts, questions, methods, arguments, and theories of epistemology—the branch of philosophy devoted to the study of knowledge. The book progresses systematically while placing key ideas and thinkers in historical and contemporary context. Central topics include the analysis of knowledge, the nature of epistemic justification, rationalism vs. empiricism, skepticism, the value of knowledge, the ethics of belief, Bayesian epistemology, social epistemology, and feminist epistemologies.
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I. Traditional Epistemology -- 1. The Analysis of Knowledge -- 2. Epistemic Justification -- 3. Sources of Knowledge: Rationalism, Empiricism, and the Kantian Synthesis -- 4. Skepticism -- II. Expanded Epistemology -- 5. Epistemic Value, Duty, and Virtue -- 6. Epistemology, Probability, and Science -- 7. Social Epistemology -- 8. Feminist Epistemologies

Introduction to Philosophy: Epistemology engages first-time philosophy readers on a guided tour through the core concepts, questions, methods, arguments, and theories of epistemology—the branch of philosophy devoted to the study of knowledge. The book progresses systematically while placing key ideas and thinkers in historical and contemporary context. Central topics include the analysis of knowledge, the nature of epistemic justification, rationalism vs. empiricism, skepticism, the value of knowledge, the ethics of belief, Bayesian epistemology, social epistemology, and feminist epistemologies.

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