Lanterna Rally

Author: Kenneth T. Gallagher

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2015-06-13

Total Pages: 315

ISBN-13: 9781330291856

Excerpt from Philosophy of Knowledge In preparing this volume, the following intentions have been principally in mind: to provide a text which covers the standard topics treated in a course in epistemology and at the same time to present these as living questions; to provide a generous amount of historical information on what representative thinkers have held on these questions; to provide extensive reference to those aspects of the problem of knowledge which have emerged in contemporary philosophy; to provide a book which actually deals in a directly reflective philosophical manner with both classical and contemporary problems. The aim, then, is both informational and philosophical, and a central philosophical point, conveyed both directly and obliquely, is that reflection in the philosophy of knowledge is still going on. Therefore, an attempt has been made to give a more open and unfinished air to the discussions than is customary with a textbook. Footnotes are deliberately more frequent than is usual, with the aim of convincing the student of the current and continuingly dialectical character of the issues, and also with the sheer informational intention of acquainting him with the literature; they are meant as an integral pedagogical part of the course. Although the book has been written from a definite philosophical standpoint, every effort has been made to render it easily utilizable by those who do not share this standpoint. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.