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4What is epistemology?Polity. 2019.Doing epistemology -- Kinds of knowledge? -- A first theory of knowledge -- Refining our theory of knowledge -- Is it even possible to have knowledge? -- Applying epistemology.
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4Yes, but How Do You Know?: Introducing Philosophy Through Sceptical IdeasBroadview Press. 2009._Yes, But How Do You Know?_ is an invitation to think philosophically through the use of sceptical ideas. Hetherington challenges our complacency and asks us to reconsider what we think we know. How much can we discover about our surroundings? What sort of beings are we? Can we trust our own reasoning? Is science all it is cracked up to be? Can we acquire knowledge of God? Are even the contents of our own minds transparent? In inviting, lucid prose, Hetherington addresses these questions and mor…Read more
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4Ginet on A Priori Knowledge: Skills and GradesVeritas – Revista de Filosofia da Pucrs 54 (2). 2009.---
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3Knowledge‐That as How‐KnowledgeIn How to Know, Wiley‐blackwell. 2011.This chapter contains sections titled: Knowing How it is that p How‐Knowledge that p and Gradualism Degrees of Knowledge and Degrees of Belief How‐Knowledge that p and Truthmakers Knowledge that p and Gradualism Knowledge‐Gradualism's Central Concept Can there be Minimal Knowledge? Minimal Knowledge as Foundational Knowledge Knowledge‐Gradualism: Closure and Scepticism Knowledge‐Gradualism: Content Externalism and Self‐Knowledge How not to Argue for Knowledge‐Absolutism Linguistic Evidence: Igor…Read more
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1A Practicalist Conception of KnowledgeIn How to Know, Wiley‐blackwell. 2011.This chapter contains sections titled: This Book's Theory: A Summary and a Name Core Problems Evaded Further Practicalist Reconceptions A Predictive Practicalism? J. L. Austin on ‘Trouser‐words’ Wittgensteinian Certainty — Generalised.
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1Lawrence BonJour, In Defense of Pure ReasonAustralasian Journal of Philosophy 77 (1): 111-112. 1999.
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1Is this a World Where Knowledge has to Include Justification?In How to Know, Wiley‐blackwell. 2011.This chapter contains sections titled: Justificationism, Broadly Understood The ‘Causally Stable World’ (CSW) Thesis Knowledge Within Causally Fluky Worlds Knowledge as Putatively Pervasive Non‐tethering Justification Linguistic Intuitions Kinds of Intension Conditional Justificationism Knowledge Within Different Possible Worlds Wholly General Justificationism A Thin or Minimal Concept of Justificationism Knowledge Within Causally Semi‐fluky Worlds Evidence and Counter‐Evidence Timothy Williamso…Read more
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Conceivability and modal knowledgeIn Tamara Horowitz & Gerald J. Massey (eds.), Thought Experiments in Science and Philosophy, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. 1991.I argue for an analysis of conceivability as a form of modal knowledge: to conceive of p's being true is to know that "Possibly, p" is true.
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Introduction: Skepticism as a Way of ThinkingIn Stephen Cade Hetherington & David Macarthur (eds.), Living Skepticism. Essays in Epistemology and Beyond, Brill. 2022.
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Knowledge and knowledge-claims: Austin and beyondIn Savas L. Tsohatzidis (ed.), Interpreting J. L. Austin: Critical Essays, Cambridge University Press. 2017.
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Fallible Knowing, Fallible ActingIn Stephen Cade Hetherington & David Macarthur (eds.), Living Skepticism. Essays in Epistemology and Beyond, Brill. 2022.
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Narcissistic EpistemologyDissertation, University of Pittsburgh. 1987.This dissertation questions two central presuppositions of traditional normative epistemology. The first, , is that the epistemologist's epistemic subject is a person--that the epistemologist is discussing you. The second, , is that the epistemologist's methodology is one of investigative detachment--that in principle his investigation is impartially of each of us. ;My arguments rely on a distinction between the epistemic subject qua epistemologist and qua non-epistemologist. The former is inter…Read more
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Introduction: Theorizing about theorizing about knowledgeIn Markos Valaris & Stephen Hetherington (eds.), Knowledge in Contemporary Philosophy, Bloomsbury Publishing. 2018.
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Recensioni/Reviews-Good Knowledge, Bad Knowledge. On Two Dogmas of Epistemology (review)Epistemologia 27 (2): 353. 2004.
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Conceiving of knowledge in modal terms?In Markos Valaris & Stephen Hetherington (eds.), Knowledge in Contemporary Philosophy, Bloomsbury Publishing. 2018.
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Classic Philosophical Arguments: The Gettier Problem (edited book)Cambridge University Presss. forthcoming.
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ReferencesIn How to Know, Wiley‐blackwell. 2011.The prelims comprise: Half‐Title Page Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Page Table of Contents Preface and Acknowledgements.
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The luck/knowledge incompatibility thesisIn Ian M. Church & Robert J. Hartman (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy and Psychology of Luck, Routledge. 2019.
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