Knowledge and Assertion

Area 11 – Scienze storiche, filosofiche, pedagogiche e psicologiche

Since Plato's Theatetus, propositional knowledge has been an enduring topic in philosophy. Even though the concept of knowledge and its analysis present such a long tradition, there is still the presence of "an extraordinary range of existing disagreements concerning conditions of knowing that should figure in an analysis of knowing" (Shope 2002). In the present book, an explication of the constitutive features of knowledge and assertions and their interplay is carried out in the light of a logical and probabilistic reconstruction of such notions in epistemology and philosophy of language. Author's analysis of knowledge and assertion is then compared with different forms of verificationist epistemology.

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