Publisher's Synopsis
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. First introduced into English by Scottish philosopher James Frederick Ferrier, Epistemology is the theory of knowledge in the branch of philosophy. Focused on the nature and scope of knowledge, including limitations, epistemology strives to answers questions about the meaning, acquisition, and measurement of knowledge. Epistemology also analyzes the nature of knowledge as it relates to truth, belief, and justification, as well as skepticism about different knowledge claims. This book focuses on the epistemology of justification, intellectual responsibility and obligation, the theories of justification, and commonly used justifiers such as abductive reasoning, pragmatism, and probability. Project Webster represents a new publishing paradigm, allowing disparate content sources to be curated into cohesive, relevant, and informative books. To date, this content has been curated from Wikipedia articles and images under Creative Commons licensing, although as Project Webster continues to increase in scope and dimension, more licensed and public domain content is being added. We believe books such as this represent a new and exciting lexicon in the sharing of human knowledge.
