Working Without a Net: A Study of Egocentric Epistemology

by Richard Foley

Book Overview

In this new book, Foley defends an epistemology that takes seriously the perspectives of individual thinkers. He argues that having rational opinions is a matter of meeting our own internal standards rather than standards that are somehow imposed upon us from the outside. It is a matter of making ourselves invulnerable to intellectual self-criticism. Foley also shows how the theory of rational belief is part of a general theory of rationality. He...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195076990
• ISBN13: 9780195076998
• Release Date: December 1992
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.6"