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(0)Keith Lehrer
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The eminent philosopher Keith Lehrer offers an original and distinctively personal view of central aspects of the human condition, such as reason, knowledge, wisdom, autonomy, love, consensus, and consciousness. He argues that what is uniquely human is our capacity for evaluating our own mental states (such as beliefs and desires), and suggests that we have a system for such evaluation which allows the resolution of personal and interpersonal conflict....
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"In this impressive second edition of Theory of Knowledge, Keith Lehrer introduces students to the major traditional and contemporary accounts of knowing. Beginning with the traditional definition of knowledge as justified true belief, Lehrer explores the truth, belief, and justification conditions on the way to a thorough examination of foundation theories of knowledge, the work of Platinga, externalism and naturalized epistemologies, internalism...
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"This flexible, new series provides the only introductory material organized around such well-defined issues as: What conditions justify exceptions to moral principles? What are the possibilities of belief in God being rational? Each volume contains eight to ten selections averaging between fifteen and twenty pages, and an introduction which gives a clear statement of the problem, points out a variety of possible approaches, and locates each reading...