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OverviewEpistemology is currently in ferment. Ever since Plato, the textbook story goes, knowledge has been conceived as justified true belief; but in 1963 Edmund Gettier blew a huge hole in this supposedly traditional account. Six decades later, however, ongoing attempts to identify the conditions which turn belief into knowledge continue to face counterexamples and charges of circularity. In response to this recurrent failure, leading philosophers have begun exploring alternative accounts of knowledge. This ground-breaking book pushes the revolt against post-Gettier epistemology in a radically new direction. It begins by challenging the crude history of philosophy underling the entire Gettier paradigm. A survey ranging from the pre-Socratics to the mid-twentieth century reveals that the allegedly 'standard' or 'traditional' analysis of knowledge is neither standard nor traditional. In fact, it is difficult to find major philosophers for thousands of years who regarded knowledge as a species of belief, or belief as entailed by knowledge. The standard view was rather that knowing and believing are distinct, mutually exclusive mental states, involving different mental faculties, and playing distinct and complementary roles in our cognitive lives. Having demolished the historical premise upon which the entire Gettier paradigm rests, this book reframes elements of this age-old consensus in contemporary terms which push 'knowledge first' epistemology in a fresh direction. Knowledge, Antognazza argues, is phenomenologically and ontologically prior to belief, and, crucially, is not a kind of belief - not even Full Product DetailsAuthor: Maria Rosa Antognazza (Professor of Philosophy, Professor of Philosophy, King's College London)Publisher: Oxford University Press Imprint: Oxford University Press Dimensions: Width: 16.00cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 24.00cm Weight: 0.632kg ISBN: 9780198831518ISBN 10: 019883151 Pages: 336 Publication Date: 16 May 2024 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Forthcoming Availability: To order  Table of ContentsPART I: Knowledge and Belief: A Distinction in Kind 1: The Apprehension of 'What Is' 2: Seeing and Not-Seeing 3: The Gap Between Mind and World 4: The Distinction in Kind after Hume 5: Non-Sceptical Philosophy of Cognition PART II: Knowledge and Belief: Phenomenology and Ontology 6: Phenomenology: Subject and Object 7: Intentionality: The Nature of the Contact between Subject and Object 8: Ontology I: Objects 9: Ontology II: Acts and Faculties 10: The Object of Knowledge and the Object of Belief PART III: Belief: The Doxastic Family and Religious Epistemology 11: Belief and Will 12: Belief and Testimony 13: Taxonomy of Belief and Doxastic Faith 14: Religious Belief I: Reformed Epistemology and Neo-Cartesianism 15: Religious Belief II: Perceiving God and Transcendental RealismReviewsAuthor InformationAt her premature death in March 2023, Maria Rosa Antognazza was Professor of Philosophy at King's College London, member of the Academia Europaea, Trustee of The Royal Institute of Philosophy, Chair of the British Society for the History of Philosophy, and recently President of the British Society for the Philosophy of Religion. Educated at the Catholic University of Milan, she held fellowships and visiting professorships in Italy, Germany, Israel, Scotland, England, Switzerland, and the USA. Renowned for her prize-winning intellectual biography of Leibniz, she was also a prominent exponent of the value to philosophy of the study of its history. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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