Contemporary Theories of Knowledge
Contemporary Theories of Knowledge

Author: John L. Pollock

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 294

ISBN-13: 9780847689378

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This exciting new edition of the classic Contemporary Theories of Knowledge has been significantly updated to include analyses of the recent literature in epistemology. In addition, a new case is made for the strong connection between epistemology and artificial intelligence, as Pollock and Cruz argue that a necessary condition for the correctness of any epistemological theory is that it be possible to build an implemented artificial intelligence system on the basis of it. Like the first edition, Contemporary Theories of Knowledge, Second Edition is an excellent teaching tool, introducing the reader to the fundamental issues and approaches in the field of epistemology.

Epistemology
Epistemology

Author: Robert Audi

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 9780415130424

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This textbook introduces the concepts and theories central for understanding the nature of knowledge. It is aimed at students who have already done an introductory course. Epistemology, or the theory of knowledge, is concerned about how we know what we do, what justifies us in believing what we do, and what standards of evidence we should use in seeking truths about the world of human experience. The author's approach draws the reader into the subfields and theories of the subject, guided by key concrete examples. Major topics covered include perception and reflection as grounds of knowledge, the nature, structure, and varieties of knowledge, and the character and scope of knowledge in the crucial realms of ethics, science and religion.

Contemporary Theories of Learning
Contemporary Theories of Learning

Author: Knud Illeris

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2009-05-07

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 1135226334

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In this definitive collection of today’s most influential learning theorists, sixteen world-renowned experts present their understanding of what learning is and how human learning takes place. Professor Knud Illeris has collected chapters that explain both the complex frameworks in which learning takes place and the specific facets of learning, such as the acquisition of learning content, personal development, and the cultural and social nature of learning processes. Each international expert provides either a seminal text or an entirely new précis of the conceptual framework they have developed over a lifetime of study. Elucidating the key concepts of learning, Contemporary Theories of Learning provides both the perfect desk reference and an ideal introduction for students. It will prove an authoritative guide for researchers and academics involved in the study of learning, and an invaluable resource for all those dealing with learning in daily life and work. It provides a detailed synthesis of current learning theories... all in the words of the theorists themselves. The theories of Knud Illeris Peter Jarvis Robert Kegan Yrjö Engeström Bente Elkjaer Jack Mezirow Howard Gardner Peter Alheit John Heron Mark Tennant Jerome Bruner Robin Usher Thomas Ziehe Jean Lave Etienne Wenger Danny Wildemeersch & Veerle Stroobants In their own words

Theory of Knowledge
Theory of Knowledge

Author: Keith Lehrer

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-10-15

Total Pages: 225

ISBN-13: 1135196095

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In this important new text, Keith Lehrer introduces students to the major traditional and contemporary accounts of knowing. Beginning with the accepted definition of knowledge as justified true belief, Lehrer explores the truth, belief and justification conditions on the way to a thorough examination of foundation theories of knowledge, externalism and naturalized epistemologies, internalism and modern coherence theories as well as recent reliabilist and causal theories. Lehrer gives all views careful examination and concludes that external factors must be matched by appropriate internal ones to yield knowledge. Readers of Professor Lehrer's earlier book Knowledge will want to know that this text adopts the framework of that classic text. But Theory of Knowledge is a completely rewritten and updated version of that book that has been simplified throughout for student use.

The Theory of Knowledge
The Theory of Knowledge

Author: Louis P. Pojman

Publisher:

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 584

ISBN-13:

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This comprehensive anthology offers a solid but accessible set of classical and contemporary readings (58 in all) representing all the major problems and viewpoints (from Plato to the internalist/externalist debate, from skepticism to the ethics of belief). Clear introductions to each section, short abstracts outlining each reading, as well as bibliographical material aid in student understanding.

An Introduction to the Theory of Knowledge
An Introduction to the Theory of Knowledge

Author: Noah Marcelino Lemos

Publisher:

Published: 2014-05-14

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 9780511649042

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Providing a clear and accessible introduction to epistemology or the theory of knowledge, this book discusses some of the main theories of justification, including foundationalism, coherentism, reliabilism, and virtue epistemology.

Empirical Knowledge
Empirical Knowledge

Author: Paul K. Moser

Publisher:

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780847682041

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Introduction : empirical knowledge / Paul K. Moser -- Concepts of epistemic justification / William P. Alston -- The myth of the given / Roderick Chisholm -- Can empirical knowledge have a foundation? / Laurence BonJour -- The coherence theory of knowledge / Keith Leher -- The foundationalism-coherentism controversy / Robert Audi -- Reliabilism and intellectual virtue / Ernest Sosa -- A contextualist theory of epistemic justification / David B. Annis -- Pragmatism, relativism, and irrationalism / Richard Rorty -- Is justified true belief knowledge? / Edmund Gettier -- An alleged defect in Gettier counterexamples / Richard Feldman -- The Gettier problem / John Pollock -- Why solve the Gettier problem? / Earl Conee -- A 'doxastic practice' approach to epistemology / William P. Alston -- Philosophical scepticism and epistemic circularity / Ernest Sosa -- Scepticism, 'externalism', and the goal of epistemology / Barry Stroud -- Epistemology naturalized / W.V. Quine -- Quine as a feminist : the radical import of naturalized epistemology / Louise M. Anthony -- Epistemic folkways and scientific epistemology / Alvin Goldman.

Contemporary Theories of Learning
Contemporary Theories of Learning

Author: Knud Illeris

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2009-05-07

Total Pages: 452

ISBN-13: 1135226326

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In this definitive collection of today’s most influential learning theorists, sixteen world-renowned experts present their understanding of what learning is and how human learning takes place. Professor Knud Illeris has collected chapters that explain both the complex frameworks in which learning takes place and the specific facets of learning, such as the acquisition of learning content, personal development, and the cultural and social nature of learning processes. Each international expert provides either a seminal text or an entirely new précis of the conceptual framework they have developed over a lifetime of study. Elucidating the key concepts of learning, Contemporary Theories of Learning provides both the perfect desk reference and an ideal introduction for students. It will prove an authoritative guide for researchers and academics involved in the study of learning, and an invaluable resource for all those dealing with learning in daily life and work. It provides a detailed synthesis of current learning theories... all in the words of the theorists themselves. The theories of Knud Illeris Peter Jarvis Robert Kegan Yrjö Engeström Bente Elkjaer Jack Mezirow Howard Gardner Peter Alheit John Heron Mark Tennant Jerome Bruner Robin Usher Thomas Ziehe Jean Lave Etienne Wenger Danny Wildemeersch & Veerle Stroobants In their own words