Righting epistemology : Hume's revolution / Bredo Johnsen.
2017
B1499.K7 J64 2017
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Title
Righting epistemology : Hume's revolution / Bredo Johnsen.
Author
Johnsen, Bredo, author.
ISBN
9780190662806 (electronic book)
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New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2017.
Language
English
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B1499.K7 J64 2017
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121
Summary
David Hume launched a historic revolution in epistemology, but allies appeared only in the twentieth century, in the persons of Sir Karl Popper, Nelson Goodman, and W. V. Quine. Hume's second great contribution to the field was to propose reflective equilibrium theory as the framework within which to understand epistemic justification. The core of this work comprises an account of these developments from Hume to Quine, and an extension of reflective equilibrium theory that renders it a general theory of epistemic justification concerning our beliefs about the world. In chapters on Sextus, Descartes, Wittgenstein, and various aspects of Hume's epistemology, the author defends new readings of those philosophers' writings on skepticism and notes significant relationships among their views.
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David Hume launched a historic revolution in epistemology, but allies appeared only in the twentieth century, in the persons of Sir Karl Popper, Nelson Goodman, and W. V. Quine. Hume's second great contribution to the field was to propose reflective equilibrium theory as the framework within which to understand epistemic justification. The core of this work comprises an account of these developments from Hume to Quine, and an extension of reflective equilibrium theory that renders it a general theory of epistemic justification concerning our beliefs about the world. In chapters on Sextus, Descartes, Wittgenstein, and various aspects of Hume's epistemology, the author defends new readings of those philosophers' writings on skepticism and notes significant relationships among their views.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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