The appearance of ignorance

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Keith DeRose presents, develops, and defends original solutions to two of the stickiest problems in epistemology: skeptical hypotheses and the lottery problem. He deploys a powerful version of contextualism, the view that the epistemic standards for the attribution of knowledge vary with context.

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Full title :The appearance of ignorance / Keith Derose.

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Publication Date:2017.
Edition:First edition

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Publisher(s):Oxford University Press
Place of Publication:Oxford, United Kingdom
Language:eng
Publication Date:2017.

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Description:1 online resource

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ISBN:9780192535900, 0192535900, 9780191846021, 0191846023
oclc:on1019680772
LC Classification:B809.14
Dewey Decimal:121/.5

Solving the skeptical problem -- Moorean methodology: was the skeptic doomed to inevitable defeat? -- Two substantively Moorean responses and the project of refuting skepticism -- Contextualism and skepticism: the defeat of the bold skeptic -- Lotteries, insensitivity, and a closure -- Insensitivity -- How do we know that we're not brains in vats? Toward a picture of knowledge.

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Contextualism (Philosophy) Contextualisme (philosophie) epistemology Ignorance Ignorance (Theory of knowledge) Knowledge, Theory of PHILOSOPHY -- Epistemology Scepticisme Skepticism Théorie de la connaissance