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How to Know

How to Know A Practicalist Conception of Knowledge

Hardback (19 Apr 2011)

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Publisher's Synopsis

Some key aspects of contemporary epistemology deserve to be challenged, and How to Know does just that. This book argues that several long-standing presumptions at the heart of the standard analytic conception of knowledge are false, and defends an alternative, a practicalist conception of knowledge.

  • Presents a philosophically original conception of knowledge, at odds with some central tenets of analytic epistemology
  • Offers a dissolution of epistemology's infamous Gettier problem - explaining why the supposed problem was never really a problem in the first place.
  • Defends an unorthodox conception of the relationship between knowledge-that and knowledge-how, understanding knowledge-that as a kind of knowledge-how.

Book information

ISBN: 9780470658123
Publisher: Wiley
Imprint: Wiley Blackwell
Pub date:
DEWEY: 121
DEWEY edition: 22
Language: English
Number of pages: 260
Weight: 552g
Height: 236mm
Width: 161mm
Spine width: 22mm