Knowledge in Contemporary Philosophy - Softcover

Stephen Hetherington; Markos Valaris

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1350446637 ISBN 13: 9781350446632

Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic, 2024

Synopsis

To know epistemology’s history is to know better what contemporary epistemology could be and perhaps should be – and what it need not be and perhaps ought not to be.

Knowledge in Contemporary Philosophy introduces many of the more developed ideas, issues, and theories from this past century of epistemological reflection. By doing so it captures the current concerns of one of Western philosophy’s greatest challenges: understanding the nature of knowledge.

Covering recent discussions about scientific, social and self-knowledge and attempts to understand knowledge naturalistically, contextually and normatively, it follows conceptions of knowledge that have been proposed, defended, replaced, and proposed anew by major contemporary philosophers.

With original insights into the vast sweep of ways in which philosophers have sought to understand knowledge, Knowledge in Contemporary Philosophy reveals what is vital and evolving within epistemology over the last 100 years.

About this title

About the Author

Stephen Hetherington is Professor of Philosophy at the University of New South Wales, Australia.

Markos Valaris is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of New South Wales, Australia.

Edition details

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1350446637
• ISBN 13: 9781350446632
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304
• Editor: Stephen Hetherington, Markos Valaris