How Do We Know?: An Introduction to Epistemology
- ISBN-10
- 0830851895
- ISBN-13
- 9780830851898
- Series
- How Do We Know?
- Category
- Philosophy
- Pages
- 168
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2020-11-17
- Publisher
- InterVarsity Press
- Authors
- Mark W. Foreman, James K. Dew Jr.
Description
What does it mean to know something? Epistemology, the study of knowledge, can often seem like a daunting subject. And yet few topics are more basic to human life. In this primer on epistemology, now in a second edition, James Dew and Mark Foreman provide an accessible entry into one of the most important disciplines within contemporary philosophy.
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- 2008
- 225 pages
- Paperback
- Cambridge Scholars Pub.
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