Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0449853

Funding Activity

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http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP0449853

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Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Knowing the Nature of 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.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-03-2004

End Date: 28-02-2007

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $90,240.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Philosophy | Epistemology

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Behavioural and cognitive sciences | Studies in human society |

Other Keywords

Behavioural and cognitive sciences | Epistemology | Philosophy | Studies in human society

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