Name: After Certainty: A History of our Epistemic Ideals and Illusions
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Author: Robert Pasnau
ISBN: 9780198852186

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After Certainty: A History of our Epistemic Ideals and Illusions

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Physical Book

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Author

Robert Pasnau

Year

2019

Language

English

Pages

400

Format

Paperback

ISBN13

9780198852186

Synopsis "After Certainty: A History of our Epistemic Ideals and Illusions "

No part of philosophy is as disconnected from its history as is epistemology. After Certainty offers a reconstruction of that history, understood as a series of changing expectations about the cognitive ideal that beings such as us might hope to achieve in a world such as this. The story begins with Aristotle and then looks at how his epistemic program was developed through later antiquity and into the Middle Ages, before being dramatically reformulated in the seventeenth century. In watching these debates unfold over the centuries, one sees why epistemology has traditionally been embedded within a much larger sphere of concerns about human nature and the reality of the world we live in. It ultimately becomes clear why epistemology today has become a much narrower and specialized field, concerned with the conditions under which it is true to say, that someone knows something. Based on a series of lectures given at Oxford University, Robert Pasnau's book ranges widely over the history of philosophy, and examines in some detail the rise of science as an autonomous discipline. Ultimately Pasnau argues that we may have no good reasons to suppose ourselves capable of achieving even the most minimal standards for knowledge, and the final chapter concludes with a discussion of faith and hope.

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