Epistemic Issues In Pragmatic Perspective (American Philosophy Series)

Sensible conjecture -- Imprecision -- Truth-contextuality and plausibility -- Managing imperfect information -- Common sense -- Terminating explanatory regress -- Quantitative epistemology -- On kinds of things -- Prediction and knowability -- Cognitive fashions -- Problems of absolute truth -- Unethical beliefs, reprehensible opinions -- Culpable ignorance -- Epistemic triage -- Inconceivable possibilities -- Optimalism in explaining the nature of things

• | Author: Nicholas Rescher
• | Publisher: Lexington Books
• | Publication Date: Dec 06, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 240 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 1498563538
• | ISBN-13: 9781498563536