Inquiry, Knowledge, and Understanding takes inquiry as the starting point for epistemological theorising. It uses this idea to develop new and systematic answers to some of the most fundamental questions in epistemology, including about the nature of core epistemic phenomena (most importantly: knowledge and understanding) as well as their value and the extent to which we possess them. Christoph Kelp argues that knowledge is the constitutive aim of inquiry into specific questions and that understanding is the constitutive aim of inquiry into general phenomena. He shows that these claims shed light on the nature of knowledge and understanding. He develops non-reductive 'network' analyses for both knowledge and understanding which elucidate the nature of knowledge and understanding in terms of their place in inquiry.
Activities with constitutive aims, including inquiry, constitute critical domains of value in which the constitutive aim corresponds to a for-its-own-sake value relative to this domain. This study uses this idea to explain which epistemic phenomena are epistemically valuable for their own sake and to develop new solutions to a range of important value problems in epistemology, including the time-honoured Meno problem: knowledge is more valuable than mere true belief because it is the constitutive aim of inquiry, and thus epistemically valuable for its own sake.
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This study takes inquiry as the starting point for epistemological theorising. It uses this idea to develop new and systematic answers to some of the most fundamental questions in epistemology, including about the nature of core epistemic phenomena as well as their value and the extent to which we possess them.
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Introduction
1: The Aim of Inquiry
2: Knowledge
3: Conditions on Knowledge
4: Understanding
5: Epistemic Value
6: Scepticism
Appendix A
Appendix B
Bibliography
Index
Argues that knowledge and understanding are the central aims of inquiry and that this insight sheds light on the nature, value, and extent of our knowledge and understanding
Shows that thinking about inquiry offers a systematic way of developing answers to a range of central epistemological questions
Offers a significant new approach to the subject
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Christoph Kelp is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Glasgow. His publications include Good Thinking: A Knowledge First Virtue Epistemology (Routledge, 2018). He is the winner of the 2017 Young Epistemologist Prize.
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Argues that knowledge and understanding are the central aims of inquiry and that this insight sheds light on the nature, value, and extent of our knowledge and understanding
Shows that thinking about inquiry offers a systematic way of developing answers to a range of central epistemological questions
Offers a significant new approach to the subject
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9780192896094
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2021
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Oxford University Press
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406 gr
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224 mm
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146 mm
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19 mm
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P, 06
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Engelsk
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224
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