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Knowledge: A Very Short Introduction

Paperback • 2014 • 1. edition

Knowledge: A Very Short Introduction

By Jennifer (Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto) Nagel

7 Ratings • 4.1 of 5

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About the book

What is knowledge? How does it differ from mere belief? Do you need to be able to justify a claim in order to count as knowing it? How can we know that the outer world is real and not a dream?Questions like these are ancient ones, and the branch of philosophy dedicated to answering them - epistemology - has been active for thousands of years. In this thought-provoking Very Short Introduction, Jennifer Nagel considers these classic questions alongside new puzzles arising from recent discoveries a...Show more

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9780199661268

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Oxford University Press

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2014

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Knowledge: A Very Short Introduction

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