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According to a tradition reaching back to Plato, questions about the nature of knowledge are to be answered by offering an analysis in terms of truth, belief, justification, and other factors presumed to be in some sense more basic than knowledge itself. In light of the apparent failure of this approach, knowledge first philosophy instead takes knowledge as the starting point in epistemology and related areas of the philosophies of language and mind. Knowledge cannot be analyzed in the traditional sense, but this does not make it mysterious or unimportant. On the contrary, we are freed to use our grasp of what knowledge is to elucidate the nature of belief, justification, evidence, the speech act of assertion, and the demands on action and practical reasoning, and to treat knowledge as a purely mental state in its own right. Knowledge First? offers the first overview and critical evaluation of knowledge first philosophy as a whole.

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Book category Books in English Humanities Philosophy Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge

• Full title: Knowledge First?
• Author: Aidan McGlynn
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 227
• EAN: 9781137026453
• ISBN: 1137026456
• ID: 04770597
• Publisher: PALGRAVE MACMILLAN
• Weight: 428 g
• Dimensions: 223 × 149 × 19 mm
• Date of publishing: 02. September 2014

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