Rethinking knowledge : the heuristic view /: the heuristic view. (2017)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Carlo Cellucci.
• Authors: Cellucci, Carlo
• Contents: Introduction -- Part I. The nature of philosophy -- The heuristic view -- The foundationalist view -- The limits of scepticism -- Philosophy and the humanistic disciplines -- Part II. The nature of knowledge -- Knowledge and naturalism -- Knowledge and reality -- Knowledge and truth -- Knowledge, plausibility, and common sense -- Other questions about knowledge -- Part III. The methods to acquire knowledge -- A discourse on method -- The methods of knowledge -- Modelling scientific knowledge -- Knowledge as problem solving -- Perceptual knowledge -- Knowledge and error -- Knowledge and mind -- Part IV. The nature of mathematical knowledge -- Mathematics as problem solving -- Mathematical objects, definitions, diagrams -- Mathematics: problem solving or theorem proving? -- Concepts of demonstration -- Mathematical explanations -- Mathematical beauty -- Mathematics and the world -- Part V. Coda -- Knowledge and the meaning of human life -- Conclusion.
• Publisher Details: Cham : Springer
• Publication Date: 2017
• Copyright Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource (427 pages)
• Subjects: 121; Knowledge, Theory of; Philosophy; Logic; Philosophy and science; Knowledge, Theory of; Logic; Philosophy; Philosophy and science
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319532370
• Related ISBNs: 9783319532363
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