Ways of Knowing

Kierkegaard's Pluralist Epistemology

M. G. Piety

• Publisher: Baylor University Press
• Year: 2011
• Print ISBN: 9781602583467, 9781602582620
• eBook ISBN: 9781602584907
• Topic: Philosophy
• Subtopic: Epistemology in Philosophy

Kierkegaard is considered one of the most important thinkers of the nineteenth century, but until now very little scholarly work had been done on his epistemology. As M. G. Piety explains, this is a serious problem, as Kierkegaard's views on our ways of knowing are, and must be, intimately related to his view on religious faith and its role in human experience. Thus, in Ways of Knowing, Piety offers the first book-length exploration of Kierkegaard's views on knowledge, an epistemology that she argues is both foundationalist and nonfoundationalist, substantive and procedural, and includes both internalist and externalist theories of belief justification. In developing, then, a general outline of Kierkegaard's views, Piety provides the foundational material for future contextualizing and comparative scholarship.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title, Title Page, Copyright
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Preface
• Sigla
• 1. Introduction: Kierkegaard as Epistemologist
• 2. The Knowing Subject
• 3. Defining Knowledge
• 4. Objective Knowledge
• 5. Redefining Knowledge
• 6. Subjective Knowledge
• 7. Conclusion: The Implications of Kierkegaard's Epistemology
• Works Cited
• Index