The Concept of Knowledge

In relation to the problems faced today, in contemplation and in practical affairs, philosophers must confront the question `What is knowledge?', and consider whether knowledge has lost its object. Such was the problem placed before the seminar convened by the Philosophical Society of Turkey at Ankara in 1989. The 17 papers derived from the lectures and discussions deal with problems of knowing and believing, of the kinds and criteria of knowledge, of truth and fallibility, and of the cultural as well as individual factors in cognition. The authors include Guido Küng, L. Jonathan Cohen, Ernest Sosa, Arda Denkel, Venant Cauchy, David Evans, Gürol Irzik, Ioanna Kuçuradi, Evandro Agazzi, Richard T. DeGeorge, Kwasi Wiredu, Teo Grünberg, H. Odera Oruka, Jindrich Zeleny, V.A. Lektorsky, Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka, and Francisco Miro Quesada. There is a critical and analytical Prologue by the convener of the Seminar, Ioanna Kuçuradi.

Résumé
In relation to the problems faced, in contemplation and in practical affairs, philosophers must confront the question 'What is knowledge?'. This work deals with problems of knowing and believing, of the kinds and criteria of knowledge, of truth and fallibility, and of the cultural as well as individual factors in cognition.

Contenu

1. Two Concepts of Knowing.- 2. Belief, Acceptance and Knowledge.- 3. Back to Basics.- 4. Experience, Order and Cause.- 5. Some Thoughts on the Nature of Knowing.- 6. Meno's Puzzle.- 7. Popper's Epistemology and World Three.- 8. Knowledge and Its Object.- 9. Are there Different Kinds of Knowledge?.- 10. Ethical Knowledge and Social Facts.- 11. Knowledge, Truth and Fallibility.- 12. Long Run Consistency of Beliefs as Criterion of Empirical Knowledge.- 13. Cultural Fundamentals in Philosophy. Obstacles in Philosophical Dialogues.- 14. Analytical and/or Dialectical Thinking.- 15. Knowledge and Cultural Objects.- 16. Knowledge and Cognition in the Self-Individualizing Progress of Life.- 17. Knowledge and Destiny.- Notes on the Authors.- Name Index.