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The Possibility of Knowledge (Hardcover)
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How is knowledge of the external world possible? How is knowledge
of other minds possible? How is a priori knowledge possible? These
are all examples of how-possible questions in epistemology. Quassim
Cassam explains how such questions arise and how they should be
answered.
In general, we ask how knowledge, or knowledge of some specific
kind, is possible when we encounter obstacles to its existence or
acquisition. So the question is: how is knowledge possible given
the various factors that make it look impossible? A satisfactory
answer to such a question will therefore need to do several
different things. In essence, explaining how a particular kind of
knowledge is possible is a matter of identifying ways of acquiring
it, overcoming or dissipating obstacles to its acquisition, and
figuring out what makes it possible to acquire it.
To respond to a how-possible question in this way is to go in for
what might be called a "multi-levels" approach. The aim of this
book is to develop and defend this approach. The first two chapters
bring out its advantages and explain why it works better than more
familiar "transcendental" approaches to explaining how knowledge is
possible. The remaining chapters use the multi-levels framework to
explain how perceptual knowledge is possible, how it is possible to
know of the existence of minds other than one's own and how a
priori knowledge is possible.
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