Sources of Knowledge: On the Concept of a Rational Capacity for Knowledge

✍ Scribed by Andrea Kern; Daniel Smyth

Publisher: Harvard University Press
Year: 2017
Tongue: English
Leaves: 303
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

How can human beings, who are liable to error, possess knowledge, since the grounds on which we believe do not rule out that we are wrong? Andrea Kern argues that we can disarm this skeptical doubt by conceiving knowledge as an act of a rational capacity. In this book, she develops a metaphysics of the mind as existing through knowledge of itself.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Introduction: “But We Can Always Err!”
Part One: Knowledge and Reason
Introduction
I. Finite Knowledge
II. Finite Justification
Part Two: The Primacy of Knowledge
Introduction
III. Doubting Knowledge
IV. The Dilemma of Epistemology
V. What Are Grounds?
Part Three: The Nature of Knowledge
Introduction
VI. Rational Capacities
VII. Rational Capacities for Knowledge
VIII. Rational Capacities and Circumstances
Part Four: The Teleology of Knowledge
Introduction
IX. The Teleology of Rational Capacities
X. Knowledge and Practice
Bibliography
Index

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