This book is about knowledge and its value. At its heart is a straightforward idea: we can answer many interesting and difficult questions in epistemology by reflecting on the role of epistemic evaluation in human life. To Hannon, the concept of knowledge is used to identify reliable informants; this practice is necessary, or at least deeply important, because it plays a vital role in human survival, cooperation, and flourishing. This book casts new light on the very nature and value of knowledge, the differences between knowledge and understanding, and the relationship between knowledge, assertion, and practical reasoning. It also forges new paths into some classic philosophical puzzles, including the Gettier problem, epistemic relativism, and philosophical skepticism. What's the Point of Knowledge? shows that pivotal issues in philosophy can be resolved by taking a function-first approach, demonstrating the significant role that this method can play in contemporary philosophy.

What's the Point of Knowledge?: A Function-First Epistemology

Politics & Social Sciences

Hannon, Michael

Philosophy

Oxford University Press

Poems and Days

Isis Pr

Poetry. Two words make the prosodic "line," three lines make a "lyrica," linked lyrica make a serial poem. More koan than haiku, THE LYRICA POEMS work that thin vein where words are mistaken for things. Hannon's poems are insects gathered at the crack of sap, blood, a trail of crumbs. They dissolve a thing, carry it off.

the lyrica poems, 2003-2010

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

IF SF Publishing

These poems were selected from a series of three letterpress chapbooks published and printed by Jerry Reddan at Tangram, in Berkeley, California between the years 2003 and 2010.

Who On Earth

Word Temple Press

One of the satisfactions of reading a poet's selected works is the opportunity to observe that poet's artistic growth, the recurrent themes or images, and if we’re lucky, the spectacle of the poet maturing into the providence of his poetic destiny. The poems in Michael Hannon's Imaginary Burden: Selected Poems are haunted by the absolute, and the scope of his inquiry is immense. Hannon confronts the nature of consciousness, its liabilities and limitations, which leads him to question the very nature of being; he's always looking at the big picture. — Gary Young, from the Introduction Michael Hannon is an American original — for fifty years he has been writing a deep, unadorned, almost mythic poetry unlike any other poet I know of. I know of no other poet who melds a vision of the inner self and the ineffable world, and does so with such craft and illuminating grace. The effect of his poems can be like looking into a desert vastness at night when the landscape is suddenly lit up by a flash of lightning. Hannon takes us back to an ancient source of what poetry tries to do — explore the enigmas and mystery of being. His is a poetry of revelation and wonder. The owl levitates, the shark rushes forward pushing a little wave full of stars, and the mind falls back on its senses, having been, beyond words, in the presence of love. Like a great temple bell, struck hard, Hannon's poems will resonate with quietude and beatitude long after you have read them. — Joseph Stroud

Imaginary Burden: Selected Poems

Mrs Findlay's Broadwood Square Piano

J.W.Northend Ltd

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7 Simple Habits of Extraordinary Salespeople

Business & Money

Real Estate

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

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