Basic Knowledge and Conditions on Knowledge

• Main Author: McBride, Mark
• Format: eBook Book
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge, UK Open Book Publishers 2017
• Edition: 1
• Subjects: basic knowledge; Brain in a vat; Cognitive studies; Coherentism; conclusive reasons; Dogma; Epistemology; Fallibilism; Foundationalism; Fred Dretske; Inference; Interdisciplinary studies; Justification (Theory of knowledge); justifications; Knowledge, Theory of; Language and Linguistics; Linguistics; Logical consequence; Philosophy; Philosophy and Religion; Philosophy of language; Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge; Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects; Robert Nozick; safety condition; sensitivity; Topics in philosophy; epistemology; conclusive reason; justification; sensitivity; safety condition; basic knowledge

"How do we know what we know? In this stimulating and rigorous book, Mark McBride explores two sets of issues in contemporary epistemology: the problems that warrant transmission poses for the category of basic knowledge; and the status of conclusive reasons, sensitivity, and safety as conditio...