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Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: AudiobookHub Recommendation
Chapter 2: The verb 'to know' seems simple, yet bears a complex meaning.
Chapter 3: Skeptics say we may not truly know what we believe we know.
Chapter 4: Descartes’s rationalism and Locke’s empiricism offered two fresh views of knowledge.
Chapter 5: Knowledge and belief share a crucial, yet slippery, relationship.
Chapter 6: Epistemology challenges even basic facts and assumptions.
Chapter 7: Testimony is a kind of knowledge that splits epistemologists.
Chapter 8: Knowledge hinges on context.
Chapter 9: Humans can intuit others’ knowing.
Description
Knowledge: A Very Short Introduction (2014) is an accessible introduction to the complex field of epistemology. Epistemology is concerned with the nature of knowledge itself. What can we know? And how do we know that we know it? Knowledge surveys epistemological thinking from the ancient Greeks to contemporary philosophy, shining a bright light on this fascinating field of thought.
Who Should Listen
- Philosophy buffs and newbies alike
- Skeptics who take everything with a grain of salt
- Knowledge workers interested in delving deeper into knowledge itself.