The Concept Of Knowledge: The Ankara Seminar (boston Studies In The Philosophy And History Of Science)

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. Front Matter....Pages i-lviii Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Two Concepts of Knowing....Pages 3-10 Belief, Acceptance and Knowledge....Pages 11-19 Back to Basics....Pages 21-29 Experience, Order and Cause....Pages 31-47 Some Thoughts on the Nature of Knowing....Pages 49-65 Meno’s Puzzle....Pages 67-80 Front Matter....Pages 81-81 Popper’s Epistemology and World Three....Pages 83-95 Knowledge and its Object....Pages 97-102 Are There Different Kinds of Knowledge?....Pages 103-118 Ethical Knowledge and Social Facts....Pages 119-126 Knowledge, Truth and Fallibility....Pages 127-148 Long Run Consistency of Beliefs as Criterion of Empirical Knowledge....Pages 149-163 Front Matter....Pages 165-165 Cultural Fundamentals in Philosophy Obstacles in Philosophical Dialogues....Pages 167-181 Analytical and/or Dialectical Thinking....Pages 183-189 Knowledge and Cultural Objects....Pages 191-196 Knowledge and Cognition in the Self-Individualizing Progress of Life....Pages 197-217 Knowledge and Destiny....Pages 219-229 Back Matter....Pages 231-246 In relation to the problems faced, in contemplation and in practical affairs, philosophers must confront the question 'What is knowledge?'. This work deals 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.