商品简介 One of the world's leading epistemologists provides a sophisticated, revisionist introduction to the subject In this concise book, one of the world’s leading epistemologists provides a sophisticated, revisionist introduction to the problem of knowledge in Western philosophy. Modern and contemporary accounts of epistemology tend to focus on limited questions of knowledge and skepticism, such as how we can know the external world, other minds, the past through memory, the future through induction, or the world’s depth and structure through inference. This book steps back for a better view of the more general issues posed by the ancient Greek Pyrrhonists. Returning to and illuminating this older, broader epistemological tradition, Ernest Sosa develops an original account of the subject, giving it substance not with Cartesian theology but with science and common sense. Descartes is a part of this ancient tradition, but he goes beyond it by considering not just whether knowledge is possible in the first place, but also how we can properly attain it. In Cartesian epistemology, Sosa finds a virtue-theoretic account, one that he extends beyond the Cartesian context. Once epistemology is viewed in this light, many of its problems can be solved or fall away. The result is an important reevaluation of epistemology that will be essential reading for students and teachers. ****的认识论者之一对该主题提供了复杂的、修正主义的介绍 在这本简明的书中,****的认识论者之一对西方哲学中的知识问题提供了复杂的、修正主义的介绍。现代和当代认识论的论述倾向于关注有限的知识和怀疑论问题,例如我们如何能够了解外部世界、其他思想、通过记忆了解过去、通过归纳了解未来,或者通过推理了解世界的深度和结构。本书退后一步,以便更好地看待古希腊皮浪主义者提出的更普遍的问题。欧内斯特·索萨(Ernest Sosa)回归并阐明了这一古老的、更广泛的认识论传统,对这一主题进行了原创性的阐述,不是用笛卡尔神学而是用科学和常识赋予它实质内容。笛卡尔是这一古老传统的一部分,但他超越了这一传统,不仅首先考虑了知识是否可能,而且还考虑了我们如何才能正确地获得它。在笛卡尔认识论中,索萨找到了一种美德理论的解释,他将其延伸到笛卡尔的背景之外。一旦从这个角度看待认识论,它的许多问题就可以得到解决或消失。其结果是对认识论的重要重新评估,这将是学生和教师的必读读物。
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