When Is True Belief Knowledge? / / Richard Foley.

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• VerfasserIn: Foley, Richard,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2012]; ©2012
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Edition: Course Book
• Language: English
• Series: Princeton Monographs in Philosophy ; 38
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (168 p.)

A woman glances at a broken clock and comes to believe it is a quarter past seven. Yet, despite the broken clock, it really does happen to be a quarter past seven. Her belief is true, but it isn't knowledge. This is a classic illustration of a central problem in epistemology: determining what k...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• I. The Basic Idea
• Chapter 1. An Observation
• Chapter 2. Post-Gettier Accounts of Knowledge
• Chapter 3. Knowledge Stories
• Chapter 4. Intuitions about Knowledge
• Chapter 5. Important Truths
• Chapter 6. Maximally Accurate and Comprehensive Beliefs
• Chapter 7. The Beetle in the Box
• Chapter 8. Knowledge Blocks
• Chapter 9. The Theory of Knowledge and Theory of Justified Belief
• II. Puzzles and Questions
• Chapter 10. The Value of True Belief
• Chapter 11. The Value of Knowledge
• Chapter 12. The Lottery and Preface
• Chapter 13. Reverse Lottery Stories
• Chapter 14. Lucky Knowledge
• Chapter 15. Closure and Skepticism
• Chapter 16. Disjunctions
• Chapter 17. Fixedness and Knowledge
• Chapter 18. Instability and Knowledge
• Chapter 19. Misleading Defeaters
• Chapter 20. Believing That I Don't Know
• Chapter 21. Introspective Knowledge
• Chapter 22. Perceptual Knowledge
• Chapter 23. A Priori Knowledge
• Chapter 24. Collective Knowledge
• III. The Structure of Epistemology
• Chapter 25. A Look Back
• Chapter 26. Epistemology within a General Theory of Rationality
• Chapter 27. The Core Concepts of Epistemology
• Notes
• Index