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Knowledge and its Limits Book

Presents a systematic conception of knowledge as a kind of mental state. This book looks at philosophical problems such as: scepticism, evidence, probability and assertion, realism and anti-realism, and the limits of what can be known.Read More

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  • Foyles

    Knowledge and its Limits presents a systematic new conception of knowledge as a fundamental kind of mental state sensitive to the knower's environment. It makes a major contribution to the debate between externalist and internalist philosophies of mind, and breaks radically with the epistemological tradition of analysing knowledge in terms of true belief. The theory casts light on a wide variety of philosophical issues: the problem of scepticism, the nature of evidence, probability and assertion, the dispute between realism and anti-realism and the paradox of the surprise examination. Williamson relates the new conception to structural limits on knowledge which imply that what can be known never exhausts what is true. The arguments are illustrated by rigorous models based on epistemic logic and probability theory. The result is a new way of doing epistemology for the twenty-first century.

  • 019925656X
  • 9780199256563
  • Timothy Williamson
  • 10 October 2002
  • OUP Oxford
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 352
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