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Title
The biological and social dimensions of human knowledge / Jan Faye.
ISBN
9783031391378 (electronic bk.)
3031391373 (electronic bk.)
9783031391361
3031391365
Published
Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2023.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (ix, 315 pages)
Other Standard Identifiers
10.1007/978-3-031-39137-8 doi
Call Number
BD161
Dewey Decimal Classification
121
Summary
Traditionally, philosophers have argued that epistemology is a normative discipline and therefore occupied with an a priori analysis of the necessary and sufficient conditions that a belief must fulfill to be acceptable as knowledge. But such an approach makes sense only if human knowledge has some normative features, which conceptual analysis is able to disclose. As it turns out, philosophers have not been able to find such features unless they are very selective in their choice of examples of knowledge. Much of what we intuitively think functions as knowledge, both in human and non-human animals, does not share these normative features. The purpose of this book is to demonstrate that natural selection has adapted human sense impressions to deliver reliable information without meeting the traditional commitments for having knowledge. In connection with memory, sensory and bodily information provides an animal with experiential knowledge. Experiential knowledge helps an animal to navigate around in its environment. Moreover, experiential knowledge has different functions depending on whether the deliverance of information stems from the organism's external or internal senses. Jan Faye is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy in the Department of Communication at the University of Copenhagen.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed October 11, 2023).
Preface
Chapter 1: Naturalized Epistemology
Chapter 2: Knowledge as a Natural Phenomenon
Chapter 3: Experiential Knowledge without Beliefs
Chapter 4: Sensory Knowledge in Humans
Chapter 5: Linking Experiences to the Social World
Chapter 6: Self-awareness, Language, and Empirical Knowledge
Chapter 7: Social Knowledge, Agreements, and Testimonies
Chapter 8: Science and its Epistemic Limits
Chapter 9: Theoretical Understanding in a Naturalistic Setting
Conclusion.
