Kelly Becker
Biographic Data
| ID | 3943691 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kelly Becker |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kelly |
| FAMILY NAME | Becker |
| SIGNATURE | BECKER K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of New Mexico |
| ORCID | 0009-0000-6470-948X |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 2 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Cambridge History of Philosophy, 1945-2015
This landmark achievement in philosophical scholarship brings together leading experts from the diverse traditions of Western philosophy in a common quest to illuminate and explain the most important philosophical developments since the Second World War. Focusing particularly (but not exclusively) on those insights and movements that most profoundly shaped the English-speaking philosophical world, this volume bridges the traditional divide betwee…
Scepticism and Reliable Belief
José Zalabardo takes an unusual approach to skepticism in this book. Most epistemologists acknowledge the force of skepticism but aim to mitigate its threat. Zalabardo tells us that he undertook to show that “our philosophical outlook was incompatible with some of our most cherished knowledge claims” (vii). He found that reliabilism presented “the main obstacle to a cogent sceptical argument” (vii), and so he set out to discover some important ty…
Why reliabilism does not permit easy knowledge
The Sensitivity Principle in Epistemology
The sensitivity principle is a compelling idea in epistemology and is typically characterized as a necessary condition for knowledge. This collection of thirteen new essays constitutes a state-of-the-art discussion of this important principle. Some of the essays build on and strengthen sensitivity-based accounts of knowledge and offer novel defences of those accounts. Others present original objections to sensitivity-based accounts (objections th…
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The Sensitivity Principle in Epistemology
The sensitivity principle is a compelling idea in epistemology and is typically characterized as a necessary condition for knowledge. This collection of thirteen new essays constitutes a state-of-the-art discussion of this important principle. Some of the essays build on and strengthen sensitivity-based accounts of knowledge and offer novel defences of those accounts. Others present original objections to sensitivity-based accounts (objections th…
Why reliabilism does not permit easy knowledge
Scepticism and Reliable Belief
José Zalabardo takes an unusual approach to skepticism in this book. Most epistemologists acknowledge the force of skepticism but aim to mitigate its threat. Zalabardo tells us that he undertook to show that “our philosophical outlook was incompatible with some of our most cherished knowledge claims” (vii). He found that reliabilism presented “the main obstacle to a cogent sceptical argument” (vii), and so he set out to discover some important ty…
Cambridge History of Philosophy, 1945-2015
This landmark achievement in philosophical scholarship brings together leading experts from the diverse traditions of Western philosophy in a common quest to illuminate and explain the most important philosophical developments since the Second World War. Focusing particularly (but not exclusively) on those insights and movements that most profoundly shaped the English-speaking philosophical world, this volume bridges the traditional divide betwee…
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