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" Knowing our limits / "
Nathan Ballantyne.
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BL
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873343
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Ballantyne, Nathan
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| Title & Author
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Knowing our limits /\ Nathan Ballantyne.
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| Publication Statement
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New York, NY :: Oxford University Press,, [2019]
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1 online resource (xi, 326 pages)
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0190847298
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: 0190847301
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: 019084731X
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: 9780190847296
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: 9780190847302
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: 9780190847319
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019084728X
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9780190847289
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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Epistemology and inquiry -- Regulative epistemology in the seventeenth century -- How do epistemic principles guide? -- How to know our limits -- Disagreement and debunking -- Counterfactual interlocutors -- Unpossessed evidence -- Epistemic trespassing -- Novices and expert disagreement -- Self-defeat? -- The end of inquiry.
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In our age of partisan confidence and polarized punditry, Knowing Our Limits examines an urgent question: how much do we know about controversial issues over which intelligent people think differently? The book provides the tools we need to think circumspectly about our controversial opinions. The author updates a classical tradition of reasonable doubt and skepticism that includes Socrates, Montaigne, and Bertrand Russell, blending philosophical analysis with current ideas from the social and cognitive sciences.
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Knowledge, Theory of.
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Knowledge, Theory of.
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121/.2
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BD201.B35 2019
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