Óscar L. González-Castán: Knowledge in the World: Epistemic Vulnerability, Verisimilitude, and Truth, Gebunden

Óscar L. González-Castán

Knowledge in the World: Epistemic Vulnerability, Verisimilitude, and Truth

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Publisher:: Springer, 11/2025
Binding:: Gebunden
Language:: Englisch
ISBN-13:: 9783032090218
Item number:: 12456696
Volume:: 376 Pages
Weight:: 727 g
Format:: 241 x 160 mm
Thickness:: 26 mm
Release date:: 17.11.2025
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Blurb

Introduction.- Part I: Epistemic Vulnerability and Its Consequences.- 2 Epistemic Vulnerability: Between Fallibilism and Epistemic Success.- 3 The "New" Plato (I): The Second Voyage of Philosophy on Truth and the Strongest Discourses.- 4 The "New" Plato (II): A Pragmatist Conception of the Role of Our Strongest Discourses.- 5 Epistemic Verisimilitude: Structural Elements.- 6 Epistemic Verisimilitude, Justification, and Truth.- Part II: Increasing Degrees of Epistemic Verisimilitude .- 7 Epistemic Verisimilitude and Asymmetric Fallibilism.- 8 The Sources of the Increasing Epistemic Verisimilitude of our Theories.- 9 Increasing Epistemic Verisimilitude and the Relay Race Problem.- 10 A Historically Accurate Epistemic Grinder Machine.- 11 The Flaws of Realism and Antirealism .- 12 A Critique of Chakravartty's Requirements for Semirealism.- Epilogue.- Index.