Knowledge and Its Limits

by Timothy Williamson

Book Overview

Knowledge and its Limits presents a systematic new conception of knowledge as a kind of mental stage sensitive to the knower's environment. It makes a major contribution to the debate between externalist and internalist philosophies of mind, and breaks radically with the epistemological tradition of analyzing knowledge in terms of true belief. The theory casts new light on such philosophical problems as scepticism, evidence, probability and assertion,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019925656X
• ISBN13: 9780199256563
• Release Date: December 2002
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.2"