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After Certainty - A History of Our Epistemic Ideals and Illusions (Hardcover)
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After Certainty - A History of Our Epistemic Ideals and Illusions (Hardcover)
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No part of philosophy is as disconnected from its history as is
epistemology. After Certainty offers a reconstruction of that
history, understood as a series of changing expectations about the
cognitive ideal that beings such as us might hope to achieve in a
world such as this. The story begins with Aristotle and then looks
at how his epistemic program was developed through later antiquity
and into the Middle Ages, before being dramatically reformulated in
the seventeenth century. In watching these debates unfold over the
centuries, one sees why epistemology has traditionally been
embedded within a much larger sphere of concerns about human nature
and the reality of the world we live in. It ultimately becomes
clear why epistemology today has become a much narrower and
specialized field, concerned with the conditions under which it is
true to say, that someone knows something. Based on a series of
lectures given at Oxford University, Robert Pasnau's book ranges
widely over the history of philosophy, and examines in some detail
the rise of science as an autonomous discipline. Ultimately Pasnau
argues that we may have no good reasons to suppose ourselves
capable of achieving even the most minimal standards for knowledge,
and the final chapter concludes with a discussion of faith and
hope.
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