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Fictions of knowledge Fact, evidence, doubt /

Locating literature at the intersection of distinct areas of thinking on the nature, scope and methods of knowledge - philosophy, theology, science, and the law - this book engages with literary texts across periods and genres to address questions of probability, problems of evidence, the uses of ex...

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Group Author: Batsaki, Yota.; Mukherji, Subha.; Schramm, Jan-Melissa.
Published:
Literature type: Electronic Software eBook
Language: English
Subjects:
Literature > History and criticism.
Literary theory.
Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers.
Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge.
Literature.
Online Access: http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9780230354616
Summary: Locating literature at the intersection of distinct areas of thinking on the nature, scope and methods of knowledge - philosophy, theology, science, and the law - this book engages with literary texts across periods and genres to address questions of probability, problems of evidence, the uses of experiment and the poetics and ethics of doubt.
Item Description: Electronic book text.
Epublication based on: 9780230277885, 2011.
Carrier Form: 256 p.
ISBN: 9780230277885
9780230354616 :
0230354610 :
CLC: I06
Contents: Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction-- Y.Batsaki, S.Mukherji & J.M.Schramm Beyond Reasonable Doubt: The Evolution of a Concept-- B.Shapiro Providence, Experience and Doubt in Medieval England-- C.Watkins Law, Probability and Character in Shakespeare-- L.Hutson Trying, Knowing and Believing: Epistemic Plots and the Poetics of Doubt-- S.Mukherji The Anxiety of Variety: Knowledge and Experience in Montaigne, Burton and Bacon-- K.Murphy Novel Knowledge: Judgment, Experience, Experiment-- J.Bender Lost in the Castle of Scepticism: Sceptical Philosophy as Gothic Romance-- S.Kareem From Alchemy to Experiment: The Political Economy of Experience in William Godwin's St Leon: A Tale of The Sixteenth Century-- Y.Batsaki Towards a Poetics of (Wrongful) Accusation: Innocence and Working-Class Voice in Mid-Victorian Fiction-- J.M.Schramm Afterword-- M.Wood Bibliography Index.

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