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Hardback. New. At the centre of modern epistemology lurks the problem of scepticism: how can we know that the forms of our cognition are compatible with the world? How can we state success conditions for knowledge claims without somehow transcending our discursive and fallible nature as knowers? By distinguishing different forms of scepticism, Markus Gabriel shows how all objective knowledge relies on shared discourses and how the essential corrigibility of knowledge claims is a crucial condition of their objectivity. We should understand scepticism not so much as posing a threat, but as offering a vital lesson about the fallibility of discursive thinking. By heeding this lesson, we can begin to reintegrate the solipsistic subject of modern epistemology back into the community of actual knowers. Taking his cue from Hegel, Wittgenstein and Brandom, Gabriel shows how intentionality as such is a public rather than a private phenomenon. He concedes that the sceptic can prove the necessary finitude…
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- Title The Limits of Epistemology
- Author Markus Gabriel; Alex Englander (Translator)
- Binding Hardcover
- Pages 448
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Polity Press
- Features Bibliography, Index
- ISBN 9781509525669 / 1509525661
- Weight 1.6 lbs (0.73 kg)
- Dimensions 9.1 x 6.1 x 1.3 in (23.11 x 15.49 x 3.30 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Skepticism, Knowledge, Theory of
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2019005170
- Dewey Decimal Code 121
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