Epistemology without knowledge?

Ratio 4 (2):157-169 (1991)
  Copy   BIBTEX

Abstract

Epistemologists have traditionally been concerned with two issues: the justification of particular beliefs or sets of beliefs, and claims to knowledge. I propose to examine the relative import of these questions by comparing the gravity of the threat posed by two sceptics: one who questions the justifiability of our beliefs, and one who doubts our knowledge claims.

Similar books and articles

Epistemology.Matthias Steup - 2008 - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
Is Justification Knowledge?Brent J. C. Madison - 2010 - Journal of Philosophical Research 35:173-191.
Fallibilism.Stephen Hetherington - 2005 - Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
Synopsis.[author unknown] - 1982 - PSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association 1982:xiii-xxiii.
The epistemology of belief.Hamid Vahid - 2009 - New York: Palgrave-Macmillan.
Knowledge and evidence.Paul K. Moser - 1989 - New York: Cambridge University Press.
Beliefs about other minds: A pragmatic justification.James Lenman - 1994 - American Philosophical Quarterly 31 (3):223-34.
Justification as the appearance of knowledge.Steven L. Reynolds - 2013 - Philosophical Studies 163 (2):367-383.
Stick to what you know.Jonathan Sutton - 2005 - Noûs 39 (3):359–396.

Analytics

Added to PP
2010-08-24

Downloads
590 (#28,340)

6 months
90 (#44,415)

Historical graph of downloads
How can I increase my downloads?

Author's Profile

Ruth Weintraub
Tel Aviv University

Citations of this work

The Problem of Induction Dissolved; But are we better off?Ruth Weintraub - 2016 - American Philosophical Quarterly 53 (1):69-84.

Add more citations

References found in this work

Philosophical explanations.Robert Nozick - 1981 - Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.
Ignorance: A Case for Scepticism.Peter K. Unger - 1975 - Oxford [Eng.]: Oxford University Press.
Philosophical papers.John Langshaw Austin - 1961 - New York: Oxford University Press. Edited by J. O. Urmson & G. J. Warnock.
Probability and the logic of rational belief.Henry Ely Kyburg - 1961 - Middletown, Conn.,: Wesleyan University Press.

View all 17 references / Add more references