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Considered Judgment, Philosophy long sought to set knowledge on a firm foundation, through derivation of indubitable truths by infallible rules. For want of such truths and rules, the enterprise foundered. Nevertheless, foundationalism's heirs continue their forbears' quest, , Considered Judgment
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  • Considered Judgment
  • Written by author Catherine Z. Elgin
  • Published by Princeton University Press, 2/1/1999
  • Philosophy long sought to set knowledge on a firm foundation, through derivation of indubitable truths by infallible rules. For want of such truths and rules, the enterprise foundered. Nevertheless, foundationalism's heirs continue their forbears' quest,
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Preface



Ch. I

Epistemology's End

3



Quarry

3



Perfect Procedural Epistemology

6



Imperfect Procedural Epistemology

10



Pure Procedural Epistemology

15



Approach

20

Ch. II

The Failure of Foundationalism

21



Requirements

21



Blueprint

24



Strict Strictures

30



Lower Standards

35



Meaning

40



Causality

47



Subjunctive Support

51



Collapse

57

Ch. III

Knowledge by Consensus

60



The Social Construction of Knowledge

60



Games People Play

61



Playing for Real

66



The Inquiry Game

70



Puzzle Solving

74



Widening the Field

79



Diverging Paths

84



Normalizing Relations

88



Does Charity End at Home?

91



Summing Up

93



What We Do

96



Two Concepts of Rules

98

Ch. IV

The Merits of Equilibrium

101



Initial Tenability

101



Reflective Equilibrium

106



Going Public

111



Bootstrapping

120



Change in Focus: From Knowledge to Understanding

122



The Growth of Understanding

129



Judgment Calls

134



Deeper Conflicts

138



Restrictions on Relativism

143

Ch. V

The Heart Has Its Reasons

146



Feelings

147



Frames of Mind

149



Tenability

156



Emotional Honesty

159



Classification

161



Emotion and the Range of Epistemology

167

Ch. VI

Shifting Focus

170



Telling Instances

171



Learning from Examples

178



Fiction in Fact

183



Fiction's Feedback

186



What We Learn about What We Know

189



Getting Perspective

192



Tenable Fictions

195



Figurative Functions

196



Reconfiguration

200



Summing Up

204

Ch. VII

Epistemic Interdependence

205



Verstehen

205



Language

208



Indeterminacy

214



Index

221


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