{"title":"Books by Professor Stephen Hetherington","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9781350344952","title":"Stephen Hetherington on Epistemology","description":"\u003cp\u003ePhilosophy has long embraced epistemology as one of its central elements. What is knowledge? How do we gain it? Can we gain it? Or do we always deceive ourselves when thinking that we have knowledge? Are we too deeply fallible ever to know something? For centuries, these questions have helped to define and motivate epistemological research. This volume engages strikingly with them, offering some unusual answers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Stephen Hetherington’s prominent career within epistemology has been a series of bold, varied and provocative arguments and ideas. Bringing together some elements of his unique body of writing for the first time, this collection features previously published as well as new material displaying and extending some of his highly original approaches to key issues including knowledge, justification, fallibility, scepticism and the Gettier Problem.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Advancing our understanding of the systemic nature of Hetherington’s thinking, \u003ci\u003eStephen Hetherington on Epistemology \u003c\/i\u003epresents his distinctive perspective on some of philosophy’s central questions about knowledge – an inviting blend of forensic detail and ‘big picture’ proposals.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56367979561333,"sku":"9781350344952","price":28.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781350344952_27bfa238-77d0-4281-8de0-0827ff3fdce6.jpg?v=1786018514"},{"product_id":"nature-of-knowledge-and-plato-now","title":"The Nature of Knowledge and Plato Now","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA bold and revisionary synthesis of contemporary and ancient Greek ways of knowing that confronts epistemology with its Platonic roots and reveals its flaws.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThrough close engagement with Plato’s \u003ci\u003eMeno\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTheaetetus\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eRepublic\u003c\/i\u003e, Stephen Hetherington argues that several foundational assumptions in contemporary epistemology fail to hold up when measured against the philosophical depth of these dialogues. Should epistemology, as practiced today, begin anew?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFocusing on central Platonic concerns about the nature of knowledge, Hetherington challenges the idea that epistemology can be pursued as a purely conceptual enterprise. He suggests that a historically grounded approach may not only enrich epistemological inquiry but also draw it closer to metaphysical reflection.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this ambitious work, Hetherington explains that we need a clearer understanding of epistemology’s Platonic roots—both to make sense of what we are doing when we ask what knowledge is, and to improve how we understand knowledge itself.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57503555387765,"sku":"9781350621121","price":85.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781350621121.jpg?v=1786867261"},{"product_id":"knowing-minimally","title":"Knowing Minimally","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhen philosophers insist that knowing is more than being correct, must you believe them? Not according to a minimalist picture of the nature of knowing: perhaps knowing is just being correct.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWestern epistemology began with two of Plato’s dialogues (\u003ci\u003eMeno \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eTheaetetus\u003c\/i\u003e) asking what knowledge is, and very few philosophers since have doubted Socrates’ claim that there is \u003ci\u003emore \u003c\/i\u003eto knowing than merely being correct. And what might that ‘more’ be? The most traditional answer is that something like good evidence is what begins to mark the difference between knowing and merely being correct. This means that unless a belief is somehow being supported by good evidence, it is not knowledge, even if correct. Philosophers assure us that knowing is more of an achievement than merely being correct.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn practice, we often do want much more than truth when seeking knowledge. We often seek good evidence with which to defend a claim, showing \u003ci\u003ethat \u003c\/i\u003eit is knowledge. We often seek good evidence with which to explain a claim, showing \u003ci\u003ewhy \u003c\/i\u003eit is knowledge. For these and other reasons, then, we might want even a true belief to be accompanied by good evidence. But do even those observations prove that knowing must include having good evidence? They do not: what typically allows or even helps one to defend or use some knowledge might not be inescapably needed as part of what is being defended or used.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book presents a minimalism about knowledge’s nature. It is a \u003ci\u003econceptual \u003c\/i\u003eminimalism – describing the surprisingly small core of how we must conceive of knowing. And it is a \u003ci\u003emetaphysical \u003c\/i\u003eminimalism – describing the surprisingly small essence or underlying nature of knowing. The good news from knowledge-minimalism is that a path leads to knowledge \u003ci\u003esimply \u003c\/i\u003eby leading to truth; nothing else is needed.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57679982395765,"sku":"9798216385349","price":90.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}]}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-professor-stephen-hetherington.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}