Epistemic Issues in Pragmatic Perspective

by Nicholas Rescher

Book Overview

This book presents a nonstandard approach to epistemology. Where standard epistemology generally focuses on the certain knowledge the Greeks called epist m , the present focus is on some less assured modes of information. Its deliberations will focus on such cognitively suboptimal processes as conjecture, guesswork, and plausible supposition. This shift of focus has implications for virtually every sector of information management, and the book's...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1498563538
• ISBN13: 9781498563536
• Release Date: December 2017
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.12 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"