Epistemology

An Anthology

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Edited by Ernest Sosa and Jaegwon Kim

Blackwell Publishers

Due/Published February 2000, 600 pages, paper

ISBN 0631197249

Concentrating on the central topics of the field, this anthology includes many of the most important contributions made in recent decades along with foundational essays. Topics include skepticism and the Pyrrhonian problematic, the definition of knowledge, and the structure of epistemic justification. Among its more specific topics are epistemology naturalized, contextualism, relativism, externalism vs internalism, foundationalism vs coherentism, and virtue epistemology.

Contents:

>Part I: Skepticism
1. The Problem of the External World: B. Stroud
2. Proof of an External World: G. E. Moore
3. Four Forms of Scepticism: G. E. Moore
4. Certainty: G. E. Moore
5. Skepticism, Naturalism, and Transcendental Arguments: P. F. Strawson
6. An Argument for Skepticism: Peter Unger

Part II: Defining Knowledge
7. Is Justified True Belief Knowledge?: Edmund Gettier
8. A Proposed Definition of Propositional Knowledge: Peter Klein
9. Selections from Thought. (Knowledge and Probability, Knowledge and Explanation, Evidence One Does Not Possess): Gilbert Harman
10. Philosophical Explanations: Robert Nozick

Part III: Contemporary Foundationalism and Coherentism
11. The Myth of the Given: Roderick M. Chisholm
12. Does Empirical Knowledge Have a Foundation?: Wilfrid Sellars
13. Epistemic Principles: Wilfrid Sellars
14. The Raft and the Pyramid: Ernest Sosa
15. A Coherence Theory of Truth and Knowledge: Donald Davidson

Part IV: Epistemic Justification
16. Evidentialism: Richard Feldman and Earl Conee
17. Skepticism and Rationality: Richard Foley
18. Epistemic Norms: John Pollock
19. Foundherentism: Susan Haack

Part V: The Pyrrhonian Problematic
20. Foundationalism, Epistemic Principles, and the Cartesian Circle: James Van Cleve
21. Can Empirical Knowledge Have a Foundation?: Laurence Bonjour
22. Reflective Knowledge in the Best Circles: Ernest Sosa

Part VI: Epistemology Naturalized
23. Epistemology Naturalized: W. V. Quine
24. What Is Naturalized Epistemology?: Jaegwon Kim
25. Why Reason Cannot Be Naturalized: Hilary Putnam
26. The Old Skepticism, the New Foundationalism, and Naturalized Epistemology: Robert Audi

Part VII: Epistemic Externalism
27. What is Justified Belief?: Alvin I. Goldman
28. How to Think about Reliability: William P. Alston
29. The Generality Problem for Reliabilism: Earl Conee and Richard Feldman
30. Externalism and Epistemology Naturalized: Keith Lehrer
31. Externalism and Skepticism: Richard Fumerton
32. Knowledge and the Internal: John McDowell
33. Knowledge and the Social Articulation of the Space of Reasons: Robert Brandom

Part VIII: Virtue Epistemology and Proper Cognitive Functioning
34. Epistemic Folkways and Scientific Epistemology: Alvin I. Goldman
35. Warrant: A First Approximation: Alvin Plantinga
36. Virtues of the Mind: Linda Zagzebski
37. Virtues and Vices of Virtue Epistemology: John Greco

Part IX: Epistemic Contextualism
38. Solving the Skeptical Problem: Keith DeRose
39. Elusive Knowledge: David Lewis
40. Contextualist Solutions to Epistemological Problems: Skepticism, Gettier, and the Lottery: Stewart Cohen

Part X: Relativism
41. Epistemological Realism: Michael Williams
42. Justification, Meta-Epistemology, and Meaning: Paul Moser
43. Reflective Equilibrium, Analytic Epistemology, and the Problem of Cognitive Diversity: Stephen Stich
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