Library Catalog
Amazon cover image
Image from Amazon.com

Groundless Belief : An Essay on the Possibility of Epistemology - Second Edition / Michael Williams.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2021]Copyright date: ©1999Description: 1 online resource (208 p.)Content type:
Media type:
Carrier type:
ISBN:
  • 9780691222028
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 121
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources:
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface to the Second Edition -- 1. Introduction: Epistemology and Scepticism -- 2. The Appeal to the Given -- 3. The Regress of Justification -- 4. Meaning or Theory? -- 5. Basic Propositions -- Afterword -- Index
Summary: Inspired by the work of Wilfrid Sellars, Michael Williams launches an all-out attack on what he calls "phenomenalism," the idea that our knowledge of the world rests on a perceptual or experiential foundation. The point of this wider-than-normal usage of the term "phenomenalism," according to which even some forms of direct realism deserve to be called phenomenalistic, is to call attention to important continuities of thought between theories often thought to be competitors. Williams's target is not phenomenalism in its classical sense-datum and reductionist form but empiricism generally. Williams examines and rejects the idea that, unless our beliefs are answerable to a "given" element in experience, objective knowledge will be impossible. Groundless Belief was first published in 1977. This second edition contains a new afterword in which Williams places his arguments in the context of some current discussions of coherentism versus the Myth of the Given and explains their relation to subsequent developments in his own epistemological views.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number URL Status Notes Barcode
eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9780691222028

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface to the Second Edition -- 1. Introduction: Epistemology and Scepticism -- 2. The Appeal to the Given -- 3. The Regress of Justification -- 4. Meaning or Theory? -- 5. Basic Propositions -- Afterword -- Index

restricted access online access with authorization star

http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec

Inspired by the work of Wilfrid Sellars, Michael Williams launches an all-out attack on what he calls "phenomenalism," the idea that our knowledge of the world rests on a perceptual or experiential foundation. The point of this wider-than-normal usage of the term "phenomenalism," according to which even some forms of direct realism deserve to be called phenomenalistic, is to call attention to important continuities of thought between theories often thought to be competitors. Williams's target is not phenomenalism in its classical sense-datum and reductionist form but empiricism generally. Williams examines and rejects the idea that, unless our beliefs are answerable to a "given" element in experience, objective knowledge will be impossible. Groundless Belief was first published in 1977. This second edition contains a new afterword in which Williams places his arguments in the context of some current discussions of coherentism versus the Myth of the Given and explains their relation to subsequent developments in his own epistemological views.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Nov 2021)