Medieval and Early Modern Epistemology (Proceedings of the Society for Medieval Logic and Metaphysic)

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Year: 2020
Tongue: English
Leaves: 114
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

This author-meets-critics volume about Robert Pasnaus After Certainty treats the history of epistemology, from Aristotle to the present. Pasnau presents this history as a gradual lowering of expectations regarding certain knowledge, the culmination of a sea change dating to the early-modern rejection of Aristotelian essentialism. The result, he concludes, is that contemporary epistemology is, more than any other branch of philosophy, estranged from its tradition. Pasnaus After Certainty draws conclusions that are not just historical, but also systematic, an effort that led to a 2018 Parisian symposium to evaluate the text, collected here as a volume that stands alone as an intriguing work on the history of epistemology or together with After Certainty as an invaluable companion piece.

✦ Table of Contents

Table of Contents
Introduction
Overview of After Certainty
John Buridan Being After Certainty
Perception: Reductivism and Relationalism
Indirect Realism
Certainty: Last Champions and Beyond
Beyond the Ideal, the Social?
Some Thoughts after After Certainty
Appendix
Contributors

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