Basic Knowledge Structures

Term Paper # 103757

Philosophy > Epistemology

This paper examines Stewart Cohen's arguments against "easy knowledge".

1,147 words () | 2 sources | APA | 2008 United States

Paper Summary:

The paper analyzes the problem of epistemological deduction of knowledge, which leads to a perceptual problem with sensory-based basic knowledge structures (BKS). The paper explains the epistemological argument of Stewart Cohen, which disagrees with P. Markie's views of easy knowledge.

From the Paper:

"The premise of Cohen's arguments against "easy knowledge" is accurately derived from the nature of rationalisms and the problem of detailing how knowledge is created from the red table analogy. In normative patterns he accesses the situation with a great of what critics would call skepticism on the basis of easy knowledge, since they often form foundationalist principles to determine the lineage of epistemology. The essential issue that Cohen defines with easy knowledge is founded on the nature of knowledge as a basic structure that often does not provide truths from outside of human cognition. He does not imply that knowledge cannot implicitly be not known through the "common sense" of assumed norms through the person experiencing temporal knowledge, but he does derides Markie's arguments on the basis of 'fact' in knowledge, as it pertains to the choices a father makes in his red table analogy."

Sample of Sources Used:

Cohen, S. (2005). Why basic knowledge is easy. Philosophy and Phenomenological research. Vol. 70, No.2.
Markie, P. Easy Knowledge. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research. 2005 - Blackwell Synergy