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The Value of Emotions for Knowledge

Posted on May 3, 2021 by Giorgio Bertini

If we could assign a foil for this volume, it would be the view that takes emotions to be opposed to rationality, a view on which emotions are generally distracting, fact-twisting, misleading, and unreliable, hindering rather than furthering our epistemic … Continue reading →

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Marx and Wittgenstein: Knowledge, Morality and Politics

Posted on June 26, 2019 by Giorgio Bertini

What, the reader of this review may well wonder, is the point of a collection of essays connecting Marx and Wittgenstein? After all, “it is possible to take almost any two thinkers of genuine insight and sophistication and to find … Continue reading →

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The Value of Knowledge and the Pursuit of Understanding

Posted on April 17, 2019 by Giorgio Bertini

Epistemology has for a long time focused on the concept of knowledge and tried to answer questions such as whether knowledge is possible and how much of it there is. Often missing from this inquiry, however, is a discussion on … Continue reading →

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The Analysis of Knowledge

Posted on April 12, 2019 by Giorgio Bertini

For any person, there are some things they know, and some things they don’t. What exactly is the difference? What does it take to know something? It’s not enough just to believe it—we don’t know the things were wrong about. … Continue reading →

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Self-Knowledge and Knowledge of the Self

Posted on April 12, 2019 by Giorgio Bertini

In philosophy, “self-knowledge” standardly refers to knowledge of one’s own sensations, thoughts, beliefs, and other mental states. At least since Descartes, most philosophers have believed that our knowledge of our own mental states differs markedly from our knowledge of the … Continue reading →

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Moral Epistemology

Posted on December 12, 2018 by Giorgio Bertini

How is moral knowledge possible? This question is central in moral epistemology and marks a cluster of problems. The most important are the following. This entry has addressed six major clusters of problems that threaten the possibility of moral knowledge. … Continue reading →

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Probabilistic knowledge

Posted on September 21, 2018 by Giorgio Bertini

Traditional philosophical discussions of knowledge have focused on the epistemic status of full beliefs. Sarah Moss argues that in addition to full beliefs, credences can constitute knowledge. For instance, your 0.4 credence that it is raining outside can constitute knowledge, … Continue reading →

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Knowledge and Ideology: The Epistemology of Social and Political Critique

Posted on July 9, 2018 by Giorgio Bertini

This book seeks to disentangle the complex, often conflicting lines of thinking that now constitute the concept of ideology critique since its origins in the work of Karl Marx. Taking his lead from Terry Eagleton’s 1994 introductory study, Morris distinguishes … Continue reading →

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