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Epistemic Analysis

A Coherence Theory of Knowledge

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  • © 1984

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Authors:
  1. Paul Ziff

    1. Department of Philosophy, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA

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Part of the book series: Synthese Library (SYLI, volume 173)

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-3
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  2. Linguistic Preliminaries

    • Paul Ziff
    Pages 5-11

  3. Actives and Passives

    • Paul Ziff
    Pages 12-23

  4. Reference

    • Paul Ziff
    Pages 24-35

  5. Coherence

    • Paul Ziff
    Pages 36-51

  6. Hypostasis

    • Paul Ziff
    Pages 52-55

  7. Knowledge

    • Paul Ziff
    Pages 56-67

  8. Knowing How

    • Paul Ziff
    Pages 68-78

  9. Various Uses

    • Paul Ziff
    Pages 79-87

  10. Conditions

    • Paul Ziff
    Pages 88-104

  11. A Position to Know

    • Paul Ziff
    Pages 105-120

  12. Analysis

    • Paul Ziff
    Pages 121-136

  13. Skepticism

    • Paul Ziff
    Pages 137-146

  14. A Safe Position

    • Paul Ziff
    Pages 147-166

  15. Demons, Angels and Miracles

    • Paul Ziff
    Pages 167-175

  16. Risk and Gravity

    • Paul Ziff
    Pages 176-193

  17. Kreb’s Epilogue

    • Paul Ziff
    Pages 194-195

  18. Back Matter

    Pages 196-203
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About this book

THIS ESSAY was begun a long time ago, in 1962, when I spent a year in Rome on a Guggenheim Fellowship. That twenty one years were required to complete it is owing both to the character of the theory presented and to my peculiar habits of mind. The theory presented is a coherence theory of knowledge: the con­ ception of coherence is here dominant and pervasive. But considera­ tions of coherence dictate an attention to details. The fact of the matter is that I get hung up on details: everything must fit, and if it does not, I do not want to proceed. A second difficulty was that all the epistemological issues seemed too clear. That may sound weird, but that's the way it is. I write philosophy to make things clear to myself. If, rightly or wrongly, I think I know the answer to a question, I can't bring myself to write it down. What happened, in this case, is that I finally became persuaded, in the course of lecturing on epistemology to under­ graduates, that not everything was as clear as it should be, that there were gaps in my presentation that were seriously in need of filling.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of Philosophy, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA

    Paul Ziff

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Epistemic Analysis

  • Book Subtitle: A Coherence Theory of Knowledge

  • Authors: Paul Ziff

  • Series Title: Synthese Library

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-7697-0

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1984

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-277-1751-1Published: 30 September 1984

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-8396-8Published: 30 December 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-015-7697-0Published: 09 March 2013

  • Series ISSN: 0166-6991

  • Series E-ISSN: 2542-8292

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 203

  • Topics: Epistemology, Philosophy of Science

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