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Idealization in Epistemology: A Modest Modeling Approach

Autor Daniel Greco
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 3 aug 2023
It's standard in epistemology to approach questions about knowledge and rational belief using idealized, simplified models. But while the practice of constructing idealized models in epistemology is old, metaepistemological reflection on that practice is not. Greco argues that the fact that epistemologists build idealized models isn't merely a metaepistemological observation that can leave first-order epistemological debates untouched. Rather, once we view epistemology through the lens of idealization and model-building, the landscape looks quite different.Constructing idealized models is likely the best epistemologists can do. Once one starts using epistemological categories like belief, knowledge, and confidence, the realm of idealization and model-building is entered. We can object to a model of knowledge by pointing to a better model, but in the absence of a better model, the fact that a framework for epistemologizing theorizing involves simplifications, approximations, and other inaccuracies-the fact of its status as an idealized model-is not in itself objectionable. Once we accept that theorizing in epistemological terms is inescapably idealized, a number of intriguing possibilities open up. Greco defends a package of epistemological views that might otherwise have looked indefensibly dismissive of our cognitive limitations-a package according to which we know a wide variety of facts with certainty, including what our evidence is, what we know and don't know, and what follows from our knowledge.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780198860556
ISBN-10: 0198860552
Pagini: 208
Dimensiuni: 162 x 240 x 16 mm
Greutate: 0.48 kg
Editura: OUP OXFORD
Colecția OUP Oxford
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Notă biografică

Daniel Greco completed his AB in philosophy at Princeton University, his MPhil in Philosophy at Cambridge University, and his PhD in philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was a Bersoff Faculty Fellow at NYU and since then he has taught at Yale University. His research is primarily in epistemology, but includes points of overlap with philosophy of science, philosophy of mind, and metaethics. He has won both the Karl Popper Prize and the Young Epistemologist Prize.