1st Edition

Dispositional Theories of Knowledge A Defence of Aetiological Foundationalism

By Lars Bo Gundersen Copyright 2003
168 Pages
by Routledge

168 Pages
by Routledge

This book offers an original examination of human cognition, arguing that cognitive skills are dispositional in nature. Opposing influential views in modern Anglo-American philosophy, Gundersen starts from the received premis that knowledge is analyzable in terms of belief, justification and truth, and goes on to clarify and improve on these ingredients' exact nature and internal association.... Read more
Contents: The general idea underlying modal epistemology; Modal theories of knowledge and warranted belief; Tracking dispositionality; Masking, mimicking and altering; A dispositional theory of knowledge and warranted belief; Bibliography; Index.

Biography

Lars Bo Gundersen