The Concept of Knowledge

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In relation to the problems faced today, in contemplation and in practical affairs, philosophers must confront the question `What is knowledge?', and consider whether knowledge has lost its object. Such was the problem placed before the seminar convened by the Philosophical Society of Turkey at Ankara in 1989. The 17 papers derived from the lectures and discussions deal with problems of knowing and believing, of the kinds and criteria of knowledge, of truth and fallibility, and of the cultural as well as individual factors in cognition. The authors include Guido Küng, L. Jonathan Cohen, Ernest Sosa, Arda Denkel, Venant Cauchy, David Evans, Gürol Irzik, Ioanna Kuçuradi, Evandro Agazzi, Richard T. DeGeorge, Kwasi Wiredu, Teo Grünberg, H. Odera Oruka, Jindrich Zeleny, V.A. Lektorsky, Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka, and Francisco Miro Quesada. There is a critical and analytical Prologue by the convener of the Seminar, Ioanna Kuçuradi.

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InhaltsangabePreface. Introduction to the Ankara Seminar. Prologue; I. Kuçuradi. Problems of Knowing. 1. Two Concepts of Knowing; G. Küng. 2. Belief, Acceptance and Knowledge; L.J. Cohen. 3. Back to Basics; E. Sosa. 4. Experience, Order and Cause; A. Denkel. 5. Some Thoughts on the Nature of Knowing; V. Cauchy. 6. Meno's Puzzle; D. Evans. Kinds and Criteria of Knowledge. 7. Popper's Epistemology and World Three; G. Irzik. 8. Knowledge and its Object; I. Kuçuradi. 9. Are there Different Kinds of Knowledge? E. Agazzi. 10. Ethical Knowledge and Social Facts; R.T. DeGeorge. 11. Knowledge, Truth and Fallibility; K. Wiredu. 12. Long Run Consistency of Beliefs as Criterion of Empirical Knowledge; T. Grünberg. Approaches to Knowledge. 13. Cultural Fundamentals in Philosophy, Obstacles in Philosophical Dialogue; H. Odera Oruka. 14. Analytical and/or Dialectical Thinking; J. Zeleny. 15. Knowledge and Cultural Objects; V.A. Lektorsky. 16. Knowledge, Cognition in the Self-Individualization Progress of Life; A-T. Tymieniecka. 17. Knowledge and Destiny; F. Miro Quesada. Notes on Authors. Index.

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