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Epistemology: A Contemporary Introduction to the Theory of Knowledge
A systematic textbook organised around the sources of belief, justification and knowledge. Audi begins with perception, comparing direct realism, sense-datum theories, adverbial theories and phenomenalism, and then treats…
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Testimony: A Philosophical Study
Coady's book is a sustained study of how much of what we know rests on what others tell us. He distinguishes the formal testimony of courts from the…
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The Character of Logic in India
Matilal's last account of Indian logic, unfinished at his death in 1991 and edited for publication by Jonardon Ganeri and Heeraman Tiwari. He argues that logic in India…
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Epistemic Injustice: Power and the Ethics of Knowing
Fricker identifies a kind of wrong done to someone specifically in their capacity as a knower. Testimonial injustice occurs when a speaker is given less credibility than they…
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Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong
Mackie's book opens with the claim that there are no objective values and defends it in the most influential first chapter in modern meta-ethics. Ordinary moral judgements, he…
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