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Title

  • Basic knowledge and conditions on knowledge

Summary

  • "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 conditions that are necessary for knowledge. To have basic knowledge is to know (have justification for) some proposition immediately, i.e., knowledge (justification) that doesn't depend on justification for any other proposition. This book considers several puzzles that arise when you take seriously the possibility that we can have basic knowledge. McBride's analysis draws together two vital strands in contemporary epistemology that are usually treated in isolation from each other. Additionally, its innovative arguments include a new application of the safety condition to the law."--Publisher's website.

Names

  • McBride, Mark, 1978- author.
  • Open Book Publishers, publisher.

Created / Published

  • Cambridge : Open Book Publishers, [2017]
  • ©2017

Contents

  • Part one. Exploring basic knowledge -- Reflections on Moore's 'proof' -- First reflections on the problem of easy knowledge -- The problem of easy knowledge: towards a solution -- Evidence and transmission failure -- A puzzle for dogmatism -- Part two. Conditions on knowledge: conclusive reasons, sensitivity, and safety -- Conclusive reasons -- Sensitivity -- Safety -- Safety: an application.

Headings

  • -  Justification (Theory of knowledge)
  • -  Knowledge, Theory of

Notes

  • -  Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-223) and index.
  • -  Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (Open Book Publisher website, viewed on March 30, 2020).

Medium

  • 1 online resource (vii, 228 pages)

Call Number/Physical Location

  • BD161

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Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2019452595

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Access Advisory

  • Unrestricted online access.

Online Format

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  • pdf

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Chicago citation style:

Mcbride, Mark, Author, and Publisher Open Book Publishers. Basic Knowledge and Conditions on Knowledge. [Cambridge: Open Book Publishers, ©, 2017] Pdf. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2019452595/.

APA citation style:

McBride, M. & Open Book Publishers, P. (2017) Basic Knowledge and Conditions on Knowledge. [Cambridge: Open Book Publishers, ©] [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2019452595/.

MLA citation style:

Mcbride, Mark, Author, and Publisher Open Book Publishers. Basic Knowledge and Conditions on Knowledge. [Cambridge: Open Book Publishers, ©, 2017] Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2019452595/>.