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GVR wrote in message <36ceb842.0@news.ip.pt>...
Any good readings on the above topic?

Regards

GVR

I recently read Richard Rorty's "Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature".  His
thesis is that epistemology as conceived in the period since Descartes is
actually a misconception that ought to be put aside.  I think the book
provides an interestingly broad perspective even though I don't completely
agree with his thesis or his characterizations of philosophy and
philosophers.  Following Rorty's argument does require a good deal
familiarity with modern philosophy, however.

Arthur Danto's "Connections to the World" is an interesting if somewhat
idiosyncratic attempt to characterize the differences (and lack of
difference) between various epistemologic positions.  Danto's book does not
presume that the reader is already familiar with problems of epistemology.

Regards

Tom Norback.

GVR wrote:

> Any good readings on the above topic?

Well, I have to recommend Ernest Sosa's _Knowledge in Perspective_.
There's also a recent Lewis paper, "Elusive Knowledge", and it's always
good to get the Lewis view on any given philosophical topic; I think
that one appeared in the Australasian Journal of Philosophy.

--
Aaron Boyden

"I may have done this and that for sufferers; but always I seemed to
have done better when I learned to feel better joys."
                                             -Thus spoke Zarathustra