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The appearance of ignorance
- Title
- The appearance of ignorance / Keith DeRose.
- Author
- DeRose, Keith, 1962-
- Publication
- Oxford, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2017.
- ©2017
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Details
- Description
- xv, 303 pages : illustration; 25 cm
- Summary
- Keith DeRose presents, develops, and defends original solutions to two of the stickiest problems in epistemology: skeptical hypotheses and the lottery problem. He deploys a powerful version of contextualism, the view that the epistemic standards for the attribution of knowledge vary with context.
- Series Statement
- Knowledge, skepticism, and context ; volume 2
- DeRose, Keith, 1962- Knowledge, skepticism, and context ; v. 2.
- Subjects
- Note
- "Companion volume to Keith DeRose's 2009 title The case for contextualism: knowledge, skepticism, and context, volume 1"--Slipcover.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-299) and index.
- Contents
- Solving the skeptical problem -- Moorean methodology: was the skeptic doomed to inevitable defeat? -- Two substantively Moorean responses and the project of refuting skepticism -- Contextualism and skepticism: the defeat of the bold skeptic -- Lotteries, insensitivity, and a closure -- Insensitivity -- How do we know that we're not brains in vats? Toward a picture of knowledge.
- Call Number
- JFE 18-5958
- ISBN
- 9780199564477
- 0199564477
- LCCN
- 2017950611
- OCLC
- 994239796
- Author
- DeRose, Keith, 1962- author.
- Title
- The appearance of ignorance / Keith DeRose.
- Publisher
- Oxford, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2017.
- Copyright Date
- ©2017
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Knowledge, skepticism, and context ; volume 2DeRose, Keith, 1962- Knowledge, skepticism, and context ; v. 2.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-299) and index.
- Added Author
- Complemented by (work): DeRose, Keith, 1962- Case for contextualism.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 18-5958