Knowing the Nature of Knowledge

了解知识的本质

• 批准号: DP0449853
• 负责人: Prof Stephen Hetherington
• 金额: $ 6.28万
• 依托单位: The University of New South Wales
• 依托单位国家: 澳大利亚
• 项目类别: Discovery Projects
• 财政年份: 2004
• 资助国家: 澳大利亚
• 起止时间: 2004-03-01 至 2007-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/RGS/Web/Grants/DP0449853
• 关键词: Knowing; Nature; Knowledge

From Plato onwards, philosophers have tried to determine what it is to have knowledge. This project will uncover some factors that have impeded those philosophical efforts to understand knowledge's nature. The project will thus constitute a fundamental challenge to standard philosophical assumptions regarding how we could, if ever, know what knowledge is. A new conception of the nature of knowledge will be developed, by resurrecting an ancient but now-ignored conception, and marrying it with contemporary technical sophistication. This new theory will be non-absolutist, admitting different grades of knowledge, even of a single fact. This will be a widely applicable theory.

从柏拉图开始，哲学家们就试图确定什么是拥有知识。这个项目将揭示一些阻碍哲学理解知识本质的因素。因此，该项目将构成对标准哲学假设的根本挑战，即我们如何才能知道知识是什么。通过复活一个古老但现在被忽视的概念，并将其与当代技术的复杂性结合起来，一个关于知识本质的新概念将得到发展。这种新理论将是非绝对主义的，承认不同层次的知识，甚至是同一事实的知识。这将是一个广泛适用的理论。