How to Know

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Some key aspects of contemporary epistemology deserve to bechallenged, and How to Know does just that. This book arguesthat several long-standing presumptions at the heart of thestandard analytic conception of knowledge are false, and defends analternative, a practicalist conception of knowledge. * Presents a philosophically original conception of knowledge, atodds with some central tenets of analytic epistemology * Offers a dissolution of epistemology's infamous Gettierproblem -- explaining why the supposed problem was neverreally a problem in the first place. * Defends an unorthodox conception of the relationship betweenknowledge-that and knowledge-how, understanding knowledge-that as akind of knowledge-how.

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Stephen Hetherington

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"In his latest book, How to Know, StephenHetherington forcefully challenges the orthodox conception ofknowledge that has come to dominate nearly all contemporarydiscussions of knowledge. Hetherington's project is not merelycritical, however. Instead he proposes a novel alternative theoryof knowledge that he calls Practicalism, a theory that says that atroot, all propositional knowledge (knowledge that) isultimately reducible to practical knowledge(knowledge how). ... Presuppositionsand supposed platitudes in philosophy deserve to be challenged.Hetherington's highly original and insightful book does just that.Whether or not one accepts all aspects of Hetherington'salternative positive proposal, epistemologists will have much togain from engaging with the details of his substantial contributionto the field." (Notre Dame PhilosophicalReviews, 28 February 2012) "This is a timely and significant book, written by an expert in thefield. It is required reading for anyone interested in cutting-edgework in epistemology." --Duncan Pritchard, University of Edinburgh
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