The Appearance Of Ignorance

Author : Keith DeRose
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2018-01-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780192535900

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Contextualism, the view that the epistemic standards a subject must meet in order for a claim attributing "knowledge" to her to be true do vary with context, has been hotly debated in epistemology and philosophy of language during the last few decades. This volume presents, develops, and defends contextualist solutions to two of the stickiest problems in epistemology: the puzzles of skeptical hypotheses and of lotteries. It is argued that, at least by ordinary standards for knowledge, we do know that skeptical hypotheses are false, and that we've lost the lottery. Why it seems that we don't know that they're false tells us a lot, both about what knowledge is and how knowledge attributions work. The Appearance of Ignorance is the companion volume to Keith DeRose's 2009 title The Case for Contextualism: Knowledge, Skepticism, and Context, Volume 1.

Author : Keith DeRose
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0191846023

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The Appearance of Ignorance by Keith DeRose Pdf

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.

Author : James M. Ambury,Andy German
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781107184466

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Knowledge and Ignorance of Self in Platonic Philosophy by James M. Ambury,Andy German Pdf

The only available volume of essays from scholars of every interpretative viewpoint on self-knowledge and self-ignorance in Plato's thought.

Author : John Foster
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1850
Category : Education
ISBN : NYPL:33433075993901

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An Essay on the Evils of Popular Ignorance by John Foster Pdf

Author : Christopher Key Chapple,Arindam Chakrabarti
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2015-11-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781438458687

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Engaged Emancipation by Christopher Key Chapple,Arindam Chakrabarti Pdf

A wide-ranging analysis of the Mokṣopāya, the Indian literary classic that teaches through storytelling how to enjoy an active, successful, worldly life in a spiritually enlightened way. In the Mokṣopāya (also known as the Yogavāsiṣṭha), an eleventh-century Sanskrit poetic text, the great Vedic philosopher Vasiṣṭha counsels his young protégé Lord Rāma about the ways of the world through sixty-four stories designed to bring Rāma from ignorance to wisdom. Much beloved, this work reflects the philosophy of Kashmir Śaivism. Precisely because all worldly pursuits are dreamlike and fiction-like, the human soul must first come to an experience of non-dualistic, mind-only metaphysics, and after attaining this wisdom, promote moral activism. Engaged Emancipation is a wide-ranging consideration of this work and the philosophical and spiritual questions it addresses by philosophers, Sanskritists, and scholars of religion, literature, and science. Contributors allow readers to walk with Rāma as his melancholy and angst transform into connectivity, peace, and spiritual equipoise. Christopher Key Chapple is Doshi Professor of Indic and Comparative Theology at Loyola Marymount University. He is the author or editor of many books, including Yoga and the Luminous: Patañjali’s Spiritual Path to Freedom and Reconciling Yogas: Haribhadra’s Collection of Views on Yoga, both also published by SUNY Press. Arindam Chakrabarti is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. His books include Mahābhārata Now: Narration, Aesthetics, Ethics (coedited with Sibaji Bandyopadhyay).

Author : John Foster
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2024-03-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783387323269

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An Essay on the Evils of Popular Ignorance by John Foster Pdf

Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.

Author : John Foster
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1845
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0018612895

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An Essay on the Evils of Popular Ignorance ... New edition, revised and enlarged by John Foster Pdf

Author : Daniel Stoljar
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2009-01-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199723966

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Ignorance and Imagination by Daniel Stoljar Pdf

Ignorance and Imagination advances a novel way to resolve the central philosophical problem about the mind: how it is that consciousness or experience fits into a larger naturalistic picture of the world. The correct response to the problem, Stoljar argues, is not to posit a realm of experience distinct from the physical, nor to deny the reality of phenomenal experience, nor even to rethink our understanding of consciousness and the language we use to talk about it. Instead, we should view the problem itself as a consequence of our ignorance of the relevant physical facts, Stoljar shows that this change of orientation is well motivated historically, empirically, and philosophically, and that it has none of the side effects it is sometimes thought to have. The result is a philosophical perspective on the mind that has a number of far-reaching consequences: for consciousness studies, for our place in nature, and for the way we think about the relationship between philosophy and science.

Author : Matthias Gross,Linsey McGoey
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 427 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2015-05-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317964674

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Routledge International Handbook of Ignorance Studies by Matthias Gross,Linsey McGoey Pdf

Once treated as the absence of knowledge, ignorance today has become a highly influential topic in its own right, commanding growing attention across the natural and social sciences where a wide range of scholars have begun to explore the social life and political issues involved in the distribution and strategic use of not knowing. The field is growing fast and this handbook reflects this interdisciplinary field of study by drawing contributions from economics, sociology, history, philosophy, cultural studies, anthropology, feminist studies, and related fields in order to serve as a seminal guide to the political, legal and social uses of ignorance in social and political life. Chapter 33 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license available here: https://tandfbis.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/rt-files/docs/Open+Access+Chapters/9780415718967_oachapter33.pdf

Author : Douglas Husak
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2016-07-21
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780190604707

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Ignorance of Law by Douglas Husak Pdf

This book argues that ignorance of law should usually be a complete excuse from criminal liability. It defends this conclusion by invoking two presumptions: first, the content of criminal law should conform to morality; second, mistakes of fact and mistakes of law should be treated symmetrically. The author grounds his position in an underlying theory of moral and criminal responsibility according to which blameworthiness consists in a defective response to the moral reasons one has. Since persons cannot be faulted for failing to respond to reasons for criminal liability they do not believe they have, then ignorance should almost always excuse. But persons are somewhat responsible for their wrongs when their mistakes of law are reckless, that is, when they consciously disregard a substantial and unjustifiable risk that their conduct might be wrong. This book illustrates this with examples and critiques the arguments to the contrary offered by criminal theorists and moral philosophers. It assesses the real-world implications for the U.S. system of criminal justice. The author describes connections between the problem of ignorance of law and other topics in moral and legal theory.

Author : Sarah Broadie
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 477 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1993-09-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780190282134

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Ethics With Aristotle by Sarah Broadie Pdf

This is a close and comprehensive study of the main themes of Aristotle's ethics. Sarah Broadie concentrates on what he has to teach about happiness, virtue, voluntary agency, practical reason, incontinence, pleasure, and the place of theoria in the best life. Never forgetting that ethics for Aristotle is above all a practical enterprise, she sheds new light on ways in which this practical orientation affects both content and method of his inquiry. The book culminates in a sustained argument showing how even Aristotle's ideal of theoretic contemplation in integral to his essentially practical vision of human nature. Ethics with Aristotle is a major contribution toward the further understanding of Aristotle's ethics.

Author : Alexander Balmain Bruce
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1881
Category : Atonement
ISBN : HARVARD:AH4PDJ

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The Humiliation of Christ in Its Physical, Ethical, and Official Aspects by Alexander Balmain Bruce Pdf

Author : John Foster
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 574 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1821
Category : Education
ISBN : HARVARD:HW2S09

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An Essay on the Evils of Popular Ignorance: and A Discourse on the Communication of Christianity to the Peole of Hindoostan by John Foster Pdf

Author : Shannon Sullivan,Nancy Tuana
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780791480038

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Race and Epistemologies of Ignorance by Shannon Sullivan,Nancy Tuana Pdf

Offering a wide variety of philosophical approaches to the neglected philosophical problem of ignorance, this groundbreaking collection builds on Charles Mills's claim that racism involves an inverted epistemology, an epistemology of ignorance. Contributors, explore how different forms of ignorance linked to race are produced and sustained and what role they play in promoting racism and white privilege. They argue that the ignorance that underpins racism is not a simple gap in knowledge, the accidental result of an epistemological oversight. In the case of racial oppression, ignorance often is actively produced for purposes of domination and exploitation. But as these essays demonstrate, ignorance is not simply a tool of oppression wielded by the powerful. It can also be a strategy for survival, an important tool for people of color to wield against white privilege and white supremacy. The book concludes that understanding ignorance and the politics of such ignorance should be a key element of epistemological and social/political analyses, for it has the potential to reveal the role of power in the construction of what is known and provide a lens for the political values at work in knowledge practices. Book jacket.

Author : Kevin Crotty
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2022-11-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781666927122

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Ignorance, Irony, and Knowledge in Plato by Kevin Crotty Pdf

A 2023 Choice Reviews Outstanding Academic Title Socrates famously claimed that he knew nothing, and that wisdom consisted in awareness of one’s ignorance. In Ignorance, Irony and Knowledge in Plato, Kevin Crotty makes the case for the centrality and fruitfulness of Socratic ignorance throughout Plato’s philosophical career. Knowing that you don’t know is more than a maxim of intellectual humility; Plato shows how it lies at the basis of all the virtues, and inspires dialogue, the best and most characteristic activity of the philosophical life. Far from being simply a lack or deficit, ignorance is a necessary constituent of genuine knowledge. Crotty explores the intricate ironies involved in the paradoxical relationship of ignorance and knowledge. He argues, further, that Plato never abandoned the historical Socrates to pursue his own philosophical agenda. Rather, his philosophical career can be largely understood as a progressive deepening of his appreciation of Socratic ignorance. Crotty presents Plato as a forerunner of the scholarly interest in ignorance that has gathered force in a wide variety of disciplines over the last 20 years.