Knowledge: A Very Short Introduction

by Jennifer Nagel

Book Overview

What is knowledge? How does it differ from mere belief? Do you need to be able to justify a claim in order to count as knowing it? How can we know that the outer world is real and not a dream?

Questions like these are ancient ones, and the branch of philosophy dedicated to answering them - epistemology - has been active for thousands of years. In this thought-provoking Very Short Introduction, Jennifer Nagel considers these classic questions...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019966126X
• ISBN13: 9780199661268
• Release Date: November 2014
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 152 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.2" x 6.9"