The Likelihood of Knowledge / by Robert G. Meyers.

It is convenient to divide the theory of knowledge into three sets of problems: 1. the nature of knowledge, certainty and related notions, 2. the nature and validi ty of the sources of knowledge, and 3. answers to skeptical arguments. The first set includes questions such as: What is it to know that...

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Main Author: Meyers, Robert G.
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Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 1988.
Series:Philosophical studies series ; v. 38.
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505 0 |a 1: Knowledge and Certainty -- 1. Three Conditions of Certainty -- 2. Modal Accounts of Certainty -- 3. The Infallibilist's View of Certainty -- 4. Direct Knowledge and Infallibility -- 2: Certainty and Fallibilism -- 1. Possible Mistakes About Necessity -- 2. Incorrigibility of the Cogito -- 3. Certainty and the Cogito -- 3: Certainty and Sensations -- 1. The Fallibilist Argument -- 2. Standard Objections -- 3. Are Basic Propositions Incorrigible? -- 4: The Nature of Justification -- 1. Theories of Justification -- 2. Abilities and Reasons -- 3. Proof and Justification -- 4. The Nature of Justification -- 5. Alternative Explanations -- 6. Social-Aspect Cases -- 5: Justification and the Gettier Problem -- 1. The Gettier Problem -- 2. Causal and Defeasibility Theories -- 3. Evidence and Truth -- 4. Some Counterexamples -- 6: Perceptual Knowledge and Physical Objects -- 1. Perception and the Given -- 2. Recognition and Perceptual Knowledge -- 3. Further Restrictions -- 4. Inferential and Non-Inferential -- 5. Abilities and Justified Belief -- 6. Direct Perception of Physical Objects -- 7: Foundations and Coherence -- 1. Experience and the Coherence Theory -- 2. The Nature of Coherence -- 3. Circularity and Coherence -- 4. Reliability and Coherence -- 8: Skepticism and Rationality -- 1. Knowledge and Certainty -- 2. Dire-Possibility Arguments -- 3. The Problem of the Criterion -- 4. Internalism vs. Externalism -- 5. Rationality and Justification -- Select Bibliography -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects. 
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