Product Description:
The Theory of Knowledge explores the nature and extent of knowledge. It looks at the key questions: What do we know? How do we know it? and analyses our right to the beliefs we have, how we acquire them and whether we can take them to be knowledge.
Via key philosophy texts, in particular Descartes' Meditations, The Theory of Knowledge covers the following four areas:
- Empiricism and Rationalism
- Knowledge and Justification
- Knowledge and Scepticism
- Knowledge of the External World.
Via key philosophy texts, in particular Descartes' Meditations, The Theory of Knowledge covers the following four areas:
- Empiricism and Rationalism
- Knowledge and Justification
- Knowledge and Scepticism
- Knowledge of the External World.
Features:
*Includes helpful advice on answering questions chapter by chapter
Short Description:
The Access to Philosophy series offers a concise and readable introduction to key areas of philosophy for students and the general reader.
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Additional Information
| FORMAT | Paperback |
| ISBN-10 | 340804823 |
| ISBN-13 | 9780340804827 |
| Author | Peter Cole |
| Publisher Company | Hodder Education |
| Feature | *Includes key word definitons *Includes helpful advice on answering questions chapter by chapter |
| About Author | Peter Cole is an experienced examiner and lecturer. |
| Book Feature | Table of Contents: 1 Assumptions, Reasoning and Arguments 2 Knowledge 3 Rationalism 4 Empiricism 5 Scepticism 6 Justification 7 Theories of truth 8 The problem of perception 9 The scope of knowledge 10 Descartes' Meditations |

