Pathways of Knowledge: Private and Public - Hardcover

Goldman, Alvin I.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0195138791 ISBN 13: 9780195138795

Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc, 2002

Synopsis

How can we know? How can we attain justified belief? These traditional questions in epistemology have inspired philosophers for centuries. This work explores inquiries as legitimate methods or "pathways" to knowledge. It examines the notion of private and public knowledge and argues for the epistemic legitimacy of private and introspective methods of gaining knowledge, yet acknowledges the equal importance of social and public mechanisms in the quest for truth. Throughout, the author addresses this opposition but proposes a rigorous framework that continues to resolve such contradictions, making this text an important contribution to the theory of knowledge.

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Review

... a devastating and sustained critique of epistemic internalism ... this comprehensive and, in places, novel critique of internalism could not have come at a better time. On the whole, the discussion in this volume is as subtle and sophisticated as you would expect from a philosopher of Goldman's calibre, with nearly all of the papers in this volume constituting a definitive contribution to the epistemological debate to which they are directed ... there is little point in resisting the urge to have a copy of this book to hand. (The Philosophical Quarterly)

About the Author

Alvin I. Goldman is Board of Governors Professor of Philosophy and Cognitive Science at Rutgers University. The author of Knowledge in a Social World, Philosophical Applications of Cognitive Science, Epistemology and Cognition, and several other books, he has pioneered many influential ideas that have shaped the contours of contemporary epistemology.

Edition details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0195138791
• ISBN 13: 9780195138795
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 238