Sources of Knowledge : : On the Concept of a Rational Capacity for Knowledge / / Andrea Kern.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DTL Humanities 2020
• VerfasserIn: Kern, Andrea,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2017]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (280 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Introduction: “But We Can Always Err!” --; Part One: Knowledge and Reason --; Introduction --; I. Finite Knowledge --; II. Finite Justification --; Part Two: The Primacy of Knowledge --; III. Doubting Knowledge --; IV. The Dilemma of Epistemology --; V. What Are Grounds? --; Part Three: The Nature of Knowledge --; VI. Rational Capacities --; VII. Rational Capacities for Knowledge --; VIII. Rational Capacities and Circumstances --; Part Four: The Teleology of Knowledge --; IX. The Teleology of Rational Capacities --; X. Knowledge and Practice --; Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780674973947; 9783110737769; 9783110543315
• DOI: 10.4159/9780674973947
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Andrea Kern.

How can human beings, who are liable to error, possess knowledge, since the grounds on which we believe do not rule out that we are wrong? Andrea Kern argues that we can disarm this skeptical doubt by conceiving knowledge as an act of a ratio­nal capacity. In this book, she develops a metaphysics of the mind as existing through knowledge of itself.