Epistemic Issues in Pragmatic Perspective
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American philosophy
Author_Nicholas Rescher
belief
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cognitive studies
common sense
conceivability regress
conjecture
efficacy
epistemology
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ignorance
information
information management
information theory
knowledge
oversimplification
pragmatism
precision truth
truth
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- ISBN 9781498563536
- Weight: 481g
- Dimensions: 161 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 06 Dec 2017
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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This book presents a nonstandard approach to epistemology. Where standard epistemology generally focuses on the certain knowledge the Greeks called epistêmê, the present focus is on some less assured modes of information. Its deliberations will focus on such cognitively suboptimal processes as conjecture, guesswork, and plausible supposition. This shift of focus has implications for virtually every sector of information management, and the book’s instigations presented here will explore some of them. Throughout the rule of pragmatic considerations stand in the foreground.As the book’s deliberations set out in detail, the nature of our knowledge of reality is inherently conditioned by the fact of its beings the product of what is, at best and at most, a matter of rational guesswork. And so as regards our knowledge, we had best adopt the pragmatic optimism of expecting—and hoping—that our best is good enough.
Nicholas Rescher is distinguished university professor of philosophy at University of Pittsburgh.
