Knowledge - Genetic Foundations and Epistemic Coherence

✍ Scribed by Birte Schelling

Publisher: De Gruyter
Year: 2011
Tongue: English
Leaves: 278
Series: Epistemische Studien / Epistemic Studies; 23
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Since the 1960s there is a controversial discussion about the correct explication of the concept of knowledge in epistemology, but until today no generally accepted solution to the problem of defining this concept has been found. This book contributes to the discussion in epistemology by proposing a new explication of the concept of knowledge which is spelled out in terms of coherence. The main thesis of this book is that a belief can be considered knowledge only if first, it is true and second, it coheres with the rest of the beliefs of the person holding the belief in an appropriate manner. The explication draws on the ideas of Donald Davidson, Laurence BonJour and Keith Lehrer and offers a new perspective on the old project of analyzing the concept of knowledge.

✦ Table of Contents

Preface
The Epistemologist's Dilemma: A Reasonable Quest for Truth
Truth-Conducivity
Truth-Conducivity and Likelihood
Truth-Conducivity - an Amendment
Externalism and Internalism
Internalism
Externalism
In Defense of Internalism
Arguing against Externalism by Counterexamples
The Children-and-Animals-Objection
The Skepticism Objection
The Externalist Confusion
Against Justification
The Relativity of Justification
Knowledge without Justification
Coherence and the World Connection
Coherence and Truth-Conducivity
What is Coherence?
The Problem of the World Connection
The First Attempt: BonJour's Observation Requirement
BonJour's Characterization of Coherence
The Role of Observation in BonJour's Coherence Theory
BonJour's Answers to the Three Objections
Two Arguments against BonJour's Solution
The Second Attempt: Davidson's Appeal to Language
Davidson on Coherence and Truth
Meaning and Interpretation
Causality and Meaning
An Epistemological Dilemma
Perception, Coherence and Knowledge
The Role of Perception
Sensation and Perception
Conceptual versus Nonconceptual Content
In Defense of Nonconceptuality of Perceptual Content
Against Nonconceptuality of Perceptual Content
Triangulation and Perception
Perception without Empiricism
Genetic Foundations and Epistemic Coherence
Objective Truth-Conducivity and Genetic Foundations
Subjective Truth-Conducivity and Epistemic Coherence
Laurence BonJour: Inferential Coherence
Keith Lehrer: Coherence in Terms of Meeting Objections
A Two-Level Account of Coherence
Knowledge as Coherent True Belief
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