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| ISBN: | 9783319080635
3319080636
3319080628
9783319080628
9783319080628
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed December 12, 2014).
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| Summary: | This collection of essays explores the philosophy of human knowledge from a multitude of perspectives, with a particular emphasis upon the justification component of the classical analysis of knowledge, and with an excursion along the way to explore the role of knowledge in Texas Hold ℓ́ℓEm poker. An important theme of the collection is the role of knowledge in religion, including a detailed argument for agnosticism. A number of the essays touch upon issues in philosophical logic, among them a fascinating new counter-example to Modus Ponens. The collection is rounded out with essays on causality and the philosophy of mind. The authorℓ́ℓs perspective on the philosophy of human knowledge is fresh and challenging, as evidenced by essays entitled ℓ́ℓOn Epistemic Preferability;ℓ́ℓ ℓ́ℓOn Being Unjustified;ℓ́ℓ ℓ́ℓThe Logic of ℓ́ℓUnlessℓ́ℓℓ́ℓ and ℓ́ℓIs ℓ́ℓThis sentence is true.ℓ́ℓ True?ℓ́ℓ An interesting feature of The Logic of Philosophy: Pesky Essays is the inclusion of responses to several of its key essays, contributed by such prominent contemporary philosophers as Roderick Chisholm, Ted Sider and Tomas Kapitan.
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| Other form: | Printed edition: 9783319080628
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| Standard no.: | 10.1007/978-3-319-08063-5
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