Philosophy Of Mind - Stroud, B - Understanding Human Knowledge Philosophical Papers.pdf

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Stroud, Barry , University of California, Berkeley
Understanding Human Knowledge
Philosophical Essays
Publication date 2002 (this edition)
Understanding
Print ISBN-10: 0-19-925213-0
Print ISBN-13: 978-0-19-925213-8 Human
doi:.0001 Knowledge

Abstract: A collection of seminal papers written by eminent epistemologist and
metaphysician Barry Stroud, published over the past 35 years. The main task Stroud
explores in the essays is, as the title suggests, the one of understanding human knowledge as it is
pursued in philosophy. Stroud defends the distinctive thesis that scepticism has a unique central place in
epistemology in that it is to be regarded as a criterion both for posing the right kind of questions
philosophical theories of knowledge face and for the postulation of answers to these questions. The
second main theme of the book, equally intrinsically related to its overall target, is the possibility of the
‘transcendental’, broadly Kantian, project of establishing the distinctive perceptual and conceptual
relationship between persons on the one hand and the world on the other. Stroud emphasizes the special
invulnerability of certain aspects of our conception of the world that panies the conglomerate of
these relationships.

Keywords: conceptual, criterion, epistemology, invulnerability, Kantian, knowledge, perceptual,
philosophy, scepticism, Barry Stroud, transcendental, understanding


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