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The value of knowledge and the pursuit of understanding / (Record no. 189499)
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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9780521037860 |
| 041 ## - LANGUAGE CODE | |
| Language code of text/sound track or separate title | eng |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 121 |
| Item number | KVA |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME | |
| Author name | Kvanvig, Jonathan L. |
| 245 #4 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | The value of knowledge and the pursuit of understanding / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. | Jonathan L. Kvanvig. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc. | New York: |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | Cambridge university press, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. | 2003. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Number of Pages | xvi, 216 p. |
| 490 ## - SERIES STATEMENT | |
| Series statement | Cambridge Studies in Philosophy |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE | |
| General note | |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE | |
| Bibliography, etc. note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | 1. The value of knowledge is external to it. The pragmatic theory ; Plato and the tethering of true belief ; Knowledge and action<br/>2. The value of true belief. The value of belief ; The value of truth ; Conclusion<br/>3. The value of justification. Externalist accounts ; Justification accounts ; Two kinds of means to a goal<br/>4. Reliabilism, normativity, and the special promise of virtue. Epistemology ; Zagzebski's virtue theory ; Virtue epistemology and credit for true belief ; A further benefit of virtue epistemology? ; Conclusion<br/>5. The Gettier problem and the value of knowledge. The Gettier problem ; Gettier-like cases ; The appeal to accidentality and a general concern ; Approaches to the Gettier problem ; Counterfactual and defeasibility approaches to the Gettier problem ; Conclusion<br/>6. Knowledge as irreducibly valuable. Curiosity and the intrinsic value of knowledge ; The desire to know ; Conclusion<br/>7. Epistemic attitudinalism : semantic and pragmatic approaches. Semantic and pragmatic versions of epistemic attitudinalism ; Epistemic attitudinalism and the value of knowledge ; The failure of epistemic attitudinalism ; Conclusion<br/>8. Knowledge and understanding. Understanding, knowledge, and logical form ; Understanding is not a species of knowledge ; The value of understanding ; Conclusion<br/>9. Conclusion |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | Jonathan Kvanvig argues that epistemology cannot ignore the question of the value of knowledge and questions the assumption that knowledge is always more valuable than the value of its subparts. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Knowledge, Theory of. |
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| Koha item type | English Books |
| Koha item type | Home library | Current library | Shelving location | Date acquired | Cost, normal purchase price | Bill Number | Accession Number | Full call number | Withdrawn status | Lost status | Not for loan | Collection |
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| Reference | Kalaignar Centenary Library Madurai | Kalaignar Centenary Library Madurai | நான்காம் தளம் / Fourth floor | 01/06/2023 | 4038.00 | SINV00098/KML/ | 315981 | 121 KVA | ENGLISH-REFERENCE BOOKS |