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Knowing Our Limits

Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

AvNathan Ballantyne,Fordham University) Ballantyne, Nathan (Associate Professor, Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy,BALLANTYNE,Ballantyne

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Changing our minds isn't easy. Even when we recognize our views are disputed by intelligent and informed people, we rarely doubt our rightness. Why is this so? How can we become more open-minded, putting ourselves in a better position to tolerate conflict, advance collective inquiry, and learn from differing perspectives in a complex world?Nathan Ballantyne defends the indispensable role of epistemology in tackling these issues. For early modern philosophers, the point of reflecting on inquiry was to understand how our beliefs are often distorted by prejudice and self-interest, and to improve the foundations of human knowledge. Ballantyne seeks to recover and modernize this classical tradition by vigorously defending an interdisciplinary approach to epistemology, blending philosophical theorizing with insights from the social and cognitive sciences.Many of us need tools to help us think more circumspectly about our controversial views. Ballantyne develops a method for distinguishing between our reasonable and unreasonable opinions, in light of evidence about bias, information overload, and rival experts. This method guides us to greater intellectual openness--in the spirit of skeptics from Socrates to Montaigne to Bertrand Russell--making us more inclined to admit that sometimes we don't have the right answers. With vibrant prose and fascinating examples from science and history, Ballantyne shows how epistemology can help us know our limits.

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Utgivningsdatum2019-10-16
Mått236 x 160 x 30 mm
Vikt612 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieAcademic
Antal sidor344
FörlagOUP USA
ISBN9780190847289

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Nathan Ballantyne received his Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Arizona and his B.A. (Hon) in Philosophy from Victoria College in the University of Toronto. He has published widely on contemporary epistemology in journals such as Mind, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, and Philosophical Quarterly. He is Executive Editor of the Canadian Journal of Philosophy and is co-editor with David Dunning of Reason, Bias, and Inquiry: New Perspectives from the Crossroads of Epistemology and Psychology (Oxford University Press, forthcoming).

Chapter 1: Epistemology and Inquiry Chapter 2: Regulative Epistemology in the Seventeenth Century Chapter 3: How do Epistemic Principles Guide? Chapter 4: How to Know Our Limits Chapter 5: Disagreement and Debunking Chapter 6: Counterfactual Interlocutors Chapter 7: Unpossessed Evidence Chapter 8: Epistemic TrespassingChapter 9: Novices and Expert Disagreement Chapter 10: Self-Defeat? Chapter 11: The End of Inquiry Bibliography

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