At the centre of modern epistemology lurks the problem of scepticism:
how can we know that the forms of our cognition are compatible with
the world? How can we state success conditions for knowledge claims
without somehow transcending our discursive and fallible nature as
knowers?
By distinguishing different forms of scepticism, Markus Gabriel shows
how all objective knowledge relies on shared discourses and how the
essential corrigibility of knowledge claims is a crucial condition of
their objectivity. We should understand scepticism not so much as
posing a threat, but as offering a vital lesson about the fallibility
of discursive thinking. By heeding this lesson, we can begin to
reintegrate the solipsistic subject of modern epistemology back into
the community of actual knowers.
Taking his cue from Hegel, Wittgenstein and Brandom, Gabriel shows how
intentionality as such is a public rather than a private phenomenon.
He concedes that the sceptic can prove the necessary finitude of
objective knowledge, but denies that this has to lead us into an
aporia. Instead, it shows us the limits of the modern project of
epistemology.
Through an examination of different kinds of sceptical paradoxes,
Gabriel not only demonstrates their indispensable role within
epistemological theorising, but also argues for the necessary failure
of all totalizing knowledge claims. In this way, epistemology, as the
discipline that claims knowledge about knowledge, begins to grasp its
own fallibility and, as a result, the true nature of its
objectivity.
The Limits of Epistemology will be of great value to students and
scholars of philosophy.
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9781509525706
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2019
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Polity
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Engelsk
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