The Possibility of Knowledge
Quassim Cassam
Abstract
How is knowledge of the external world possible? How is knowledge of other minds possible? How is a priori knowledge possible? These are all examples of ‘how-possible’ questions in epistemology. In general, we ask how knowledge, or knowledge of some specific kind, is possible when we encounter obstacles to its existence or acquisition. So the question is: how is knowledge possible given the various factors that make it look impossible? A satisfactory answer to such a question will therefore need to do several different things. In essence, explaining how a particular kind of knowledge is possib ... More
Keywords: how-possible questions, acquiring knowledge, obstacles to knowledge, a priori knowledge, external world knowledge, other minds
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2007 | Print ISBN-13: 9780199208319 |
| Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: September 2007 | DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199208319.001.0001 |
