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Knowledge and the State of Nature: An Essay in Conceptual Synthesis

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Knowledge and the State of Nature: An Essay in Conceptual Synthesis - Craig, Edward
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In this illuminating study Craig argues that the standard practice of analyzing the concept of knowledge has radical defects--arbitrary restriction of the subject matter and risky theoretical presuppositions. He proposes a new approach similar to the "state-of-nature" method found in political theory, building the concept up from a hypothesis about its social function and the needs it fulfills. Shedding light on much that philosophers have written about knowledge, its analysis and the obstacles to its analysis, and the ...

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Knowledge and the State of Nature: An Essay in Conceptual Synthesis 1999, Oxford University Press, USA

ISBN-13: 9780198238799

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Knowledge and the State of Nature: An Essay in Conceptual Synthesis 1991, Clarendon Press, Oxford, England

ISBN-13: 9780198242437

Hardcover