"Offers the student a clear and well-organized presentation of material relating to scepticism, to various philosophical accounts of knowledge and justification, to theories of perception, and much more...Dancy has written an ambitious book...He gives both the student and the professional much to think about." - "Mind".
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"Offers the student a clear and well-organized presentation of material relating to scepticism, to various philosophical accounts of knowledge and justification, to theories of perception, and much more... Dancy has written an ambitious book... He gives both the student and the professional much to think about." Mind
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Jonathan Dancy is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Reading and author of Berkeley: An Introduction (Blackwell, 1987) and Moral Reasons (Blackwell, 1993), and editor of A Companion to Epistemology (with Ernest Sosa, Blackwell, 1992), Reading Parfit (Blackwell, 1997), and Normativity (Blackwell, 2000).
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This book is a very clearly written introduction to its subject. It is committed to an analytical tradition though, and for those not familiar with its style it must appear a little hard. I myself have read it a couple of times and the first reading was a little troublesome to me. But as I picked it up again six months later I found it a pleasure and worth my efforts. The arguments are strict, compact and many.
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This book is exactly what it claims to be: an introduction to the contemporary theory of knowledge (epistemology - what a great word!). Dancy presents an excellent - thorough and lucid - account of the problems connected with the nature of knowledge, how those problems have been approached and dealt with and the advantages and disadvantages of the different approaches such as coherentism and foundationalism. This book, though it is certainly not a breezy novel, is well worth reading if you are a reasonably intelligent thinking person and want to understand how it is that we can know things and, more importantly, what it means to say that we know things or have knowledge.
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Scepticism in its most interesting form always depends on an argument; the better the argument, the stronger the scepticism it generates. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
antecedent security, plurality objection, argument from error, complete holism, first sceptical argument, present sensory states, own sensory states, indirect realism, internal direct object, indirect realist, critical cognitivism, justified iff, sensory beliefs, pure coherentism, local scepticism, conditional theory, factual memory, tripartite account, infallible beliefs, classical foundationalism, argument from illusion, regress argument, sentential meaning, analytic justification, perceptual realism Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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- The Principles of Human Knowledge by George Berkeley on page 140, page 156, and Back Matter
- The Phenomenology of Mind (Philosophical Classics) by Georg W. F. Hegel on page 227, and Back Matter
- Words and Objections: Essays on the Work of W.V. Quine. Revised edition (Synthese Library) by D. Davidson in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Theory of Knowledge (Prentice-Hall Foundations of Philosophy Series) by Roderick Chisholm in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Ontological Relativity by W. V. Quine in Back Matter
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- A Guide through the Theory of Knowledge by Adam Morton on 6 pages
- The Oxford Handbook of Epistemology (Oxford Handbooks) by Paul K. Moser on 6 pages
- Relativism and Reality: A Contemporary Introduction by Robert Kirk on 4 pages
- Contemporary Philosophy of Religion: An Introduction (Contemporary Philosophy) by Charles Taliaferro in Front Matter, page 92, and Back Matter
- Philosophy in Practice: An Introduction to the Main Questions by Adam Morton on page 87, page 148, and page 277
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