Knowledge Puzzles

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KNOWLEDGE PUZZLES
"A truly unique introduction to epistemology.Through an emphasis on puzzles rather than solutions, Hetherington takes the reader through an extraordinarily wide range of issues and manages to make even the most technical epistemological controversies accessible and intriguing to the philosophical novice. Because he is interested in developing questions rather than providing answers, Hetherington's text will be ideal for the teacher who wants to give students a genuine feel for what it is like to work through a philosophical problem."
—RICHARD FUMERTON University of Iowa
"An excellent and thorough introduction to the theory of knowledge. Hetherington is able to cover so much ground, while keeping his chapters admirably short and pithy, because he is completely undogmatic and has no axe to grind.The exposition proceeds in terms of puzzles, examples, and Socratic questions, making the book flexible and suitable for almost any approach to epistemology... Tovább

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KNOWLEDGE PUZZLES
"A truly unique introduction to epistemology.Through an emphasis on puzzles rather than solutions, Hetherington takes the reader through an extraordinarily wide range of issues and manages to make even the most technical epistemological controversies accessible and intriguing to the philosophical novice. Because he is interested in developing questions rather than providing answers, Hetherington's text will be ideal for the teacher who wants to give students a genuine feel for what it is like to work through a philosophical problem."
—RICHARD FUMERTON University of Iowa
"An excellent and thorough introduction to the theory of knowledge. Hetherington is able to cover so much ground, while keeping his chapters admirably short and pithy, because he is completely undogmatic and has no axe to grind.The exposition proceeds in terms of puzzles, examples, and Socratic questions, making the book flexible and suitable for almost any approach to epistemology "
—WILLIAM G. LYCAN University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Based on the use of puzzles to motivate the study of perennial issues, Stephen Hetherington has written an engagingly informal survey of epistemology.With its light and undogmatic touch, Knowledge Puzzles is an ideal way to introduce students to the problem of knowledge.
STEPHEN CADE HETHERINGTON is senior lecturer in philosophy at the University of New South Wales in Sydney. Vissza