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		<title>Ancient Epistemology</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 23:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the first title in the Key Themes in Ancient Philosophy series, which provides concise books, written by major scholars and accessible to non-specialists, on important themes in ancient philosophy which remain of philosophical interest today. In this book, Professor Gerson explores ancient accounts of the nature of knowledge and belief from the Presocratics up to the Platonists of late antiquity. He argues that ancient philosophers generally held a naturalistic view of knowledge as well as of belief. Hence, knowledge was not viewed as a stipulated or semantically determined type of belief but was rather a real or objectively determinable achievement. In fact, its attainment was identical with the highest possible cognitive achievement, namely wisdom. It was this naturalistic view of knowledge at which the ancient Skeptics took aim. The book concludes by comparing the ancient naturalistic epistemology with some contemporary versions. • Major synthesis of one of the most important fields of philosophy in antiquity by a senior scholar of international renown • Covers the whole of antiquity from Socrates’ predecessors to late antiquity • Shows how the ancient accounts and debates reflect on modern discussions of epistemology]]></description>
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		<title>Unknowability: An Inquiry Into the Limits of Knowledge</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The realities of man’s cognitive situation are such that our knowledge of the world’s ways is bound to be imperfect. Nonetheless, the theory of unknowability—agnoseology as some have called it—is a rather underdeveloped branch of knowledge. And it seems destined to remain so since most of us would prefer to “accentuate the positive” and focus attention on human abilities and powers, rather than disabilities and incapacities. Granted, the task of identifying individual unknowable facts as such is inherently impracticable. (If they are supposed to be identified as such—as facts—then how can they be unknowable?) But their treatment at the level of generality is something else again. And as the deliberations of the book will endeavor to show in detail, there are four prime reasons for the impracticability of cognitive access to certain facts about the world: developmental impredictability, verificational surdity, ontological detail, and predicative vagrancy. The role of each of these factors will be explained and examined by exploring the prospects and possibilities of knowledge, with particular focus on its limits, practical and theoretical alike.]]></description>
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