Epistemic Principles: A Primer For The Theory Of Knowledge (American University Studies)

Preface - Introduction - Principles - Questions - Ideas - Principles of Truth and Acceptance - Presumption as a Pathway to Plausibility - Conjecture and the Move from Mere Plausibility and Presumption to Acceptance - Plausibility Conflicts and Paradox - From Conjecture to Belief and from Belief to Knowledge - The Epistemic Gap and Grades of Acceptance - Cognitive Thresholds - Imprecision - Intuitive Knowledge - Experience and Induction - Distributive vs. Collective Explanation - Cognitive Importance - Problems of Prediction - Error and Cognitive Risk - Problems of Skepticism - Trust - Common Sense - How Science Works - Scientific Realism and Its Problems - The Anthomorphic Contextuality of Science - Ignorance and Limits of Knowledge - On Systemic "Best Fit" Reasoning - Inference from the Best Systematization - The Cyclic Unity of Reason - Fact, Fiction, and Functional Surrogacy - A Pragmatic Coda - Bibliography - Name Index

• | Author: Nicholas Rescher
• | Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
• | Publication Date: Nov 30, 2016
• | Number of Pages: 172 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 1433135477
• | ISBN-13: 9781433135477