Adaptive Knowing Epistemology from a Realistic Standpoint

Adaptive Knowing Epistemology from a Realistic Standpoint / by J.K. Feibleman.

The acquisition of knowledge is not a single unrelated occasion but rather an adaptive process in which past acquisitions modify present and future ones. In Part I of this essay in epistemology it is argued that coping with knowledge is not a passive affair but dynamic and active, involving its cont...

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Main Author: Feibleman, J.K (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 1976.
Edition:1st ed. 1976.
Series:Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:
Epistemology.
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Table of Contents:
  • I: Coping with Knowledge
  • I. The Problem of Knowledge
  • II. The Acquisition of Knowledge
  • III. The Assimilation of Knowledge
  • IV. The Deployment of Knowledge
  • II: Specific Issues
  • V. Knowing, Doing and Being
  • VI. Absent Objects
  • VII. The Mind-Body Problem
  • VIII. The Knowledge of the Known
  • IX. The Subjectivity of a Realist
  • X. Activity as a Source of Knowledge
  • XI. On Beliefs and Believing
  • XII. Adaptive Responses and the Ecosystem
  • XIII. The Reality Game.

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