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Epistemological Self-Profile
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This chapter considers the problem of trying to explain how knowledge of the world is possible in general, not simply how human beings come to know certain things about it on the basis of certain other things they already know about it. The goal was to understand how anyone ever comes to know anything at all about a public objective world on the basis of perceiving the sorts of things human beings are capable of perceiving. On the prevailing conception, what was ‘directly’ available to unaided perception alone was not part of that ‘external’ world at all. Not only necessary truths, but no truths about the world at all seemed knowable on that conception of perception and knowledge. This chapter argues that we must move beyond ‘externalism’ about knowledge to a broader ‘externalist’ or ‘anti-individualist’ understanding of all thoughts and beliefs and experiences concerning the world in which people live.
Title: Epistemological Self-Profile
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This chapter considers the problem of trying to explain how knowledge of the world is possible in general, not simply how human beings come to know certain things about it on the basis of certain other things they already know about it.
The goal was to understand how anyone ever comes to know anything at all about a public objective world on the basis of perceiving the sorts of things human beings are capable of perceiving.
On the prevailing conception, what was ‘directly’ available to unaided perception alone was not part of that ‘external’ world at all.
Not only necessary truths, but no truths about the world at all seemed knowable on that conception of perception and knowledge.
This chapter argues that we must move beyond ‘externalism’ about knowledge to a broader ‘externalist’ or ‘anti-individualist’ understanding of all thoughts and beliefs and experiences concerning the world in which people live.
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