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Timothy Williamson's 2000 book Knowledge and Its Limits is perhaps
the most important work of philosophy of the decade. Eighteen
leading philosophers have now joined forces to give a critical
assessment of ideas and arguments in this work, and the impact it
has had on contemporary philosophy. They discuss epistemological
issues concerning evidence, defeasibility, skepticism, testimony,
assertion, and perception, and debate Williamson's central claim
that knowledge is a mental state.
Is truth objective or relative? What exists independently of our
minds? This book is about these two questions. The essays in its
pages variously defend and critique answers to each, grapple over
the proper methodology for addressing them, and wonder whether
either question is worth pursuing. In so doing, they carry on a
long and esteemed tradition - for our two questions are among the
oldest of philosophical issues, and have vexed almost every major
philosopher, from Plato, to Kant to Wittgenstein. Fifteen eminent
contributors bring fresh perspectives, renewed energy and original
answers to debates which have been the focus of a tremendous amount
of interest in the last three decades both within philosophy and
the culture at large.
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