TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kern,Andrea
TI  - Sources of Knowledge: On the Concept of a Rational Capacity for Knowledge 
SN  - 9780674973947
AV  - BD181 .K3913 2017eb
U1  - 121/.3 23
PY  - 2017///]
CY  - Cambridge, MA : 
PB  - Harvard University Press, 
KW  - Error
KW  - Knowledge, Theory of
KW  - Reason
KW  - PHILOSOPHY / Epistemology
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Introduction: “But We Can Always Err!” --; Part One: Knowledge and Reason --; Introduction --; I. Finite Knowledge --; II. Finite Justification --; Part Two: The Primacy of Knowledge --; Introduction --; III. Doubting Knowledge --; IV. The Dilemma of Epistemology --; V. What Are Grounds? --; Part Three: The Nature of Knowledge --; Introduction --; VI. Rational Capacities --; VII. Rational Capacities for Knowledge --; VIII. Rational Capacities and Circumstances --; Part Four: The Teleology of Knowledge --; Introduction --; IX. The Teleology of Rational Capacities --; X. Knowledge and Practice --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access
N2  - How can human beings, who are liable to error, possess knowledge, since the grounds on which we believe do not rule out that we are wrong? Andrea Kern argues that we can disarm this skeptical doubt by conceiving knowledge as an act of a ratio­nal capacity. In this book, she develops a metaphysics of the mind as existing through knowledge of itself
UR  - https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674973947
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