The Limits of Epistemology
At the centre of modern epistemology lurks the problem of scepticism: how can we know that the forms of our cognition are compatible with the world? How can we state success conditions for knowledge claims without somehow transcending our discursive and fallible nature as knowers?By distinguishing different forms of scepticism, Markus Gabriel shows how all objective knowledge relies on shared discourses and how the essential corrigibility of knowledge claims is a crucial condition of their objectivity. We should understand scepticism not so much as posing a threat, but as offering a vital lesson about the fallibility of discursive thinking. B…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-5095-2570-6
- EAN: 9781509525706
- Produktnummer: 33331000
- Verlag: Wiley
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
- Seitenangabe: 448 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 540 KB
Über den Autor
Markus Gabriel was born in 1980 and studied in Heidelberg, Lisbon and New York. Since 2009 he has held the Chair for Epistemology at the University of Bonn-and with this appointment he became Germany's youngest philosophy professor. He is also the director of the International Center for Philosophy in Bonn.
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