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Epistemology: An Anthology

Second Edition

Edited by: Ernest Sosa (Rutgers University, USA ), Jaegwon Kim (Brown University, Rhode Island), Jeremy Fantl (HAVERFORD COLLEGE) and Matthew McGrath (University of Missouri, Columbia)

Series: Blackwell Philosophy Anthologies

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New and thoroughly updated, Epistemology: An Anthology continues to represent the most comprehensive and authoritative collection of canonical readings in the theory of knowledge.

• Concentrates on the central topics of the field, such as skepticism and the Pyrrhonian problematic, the definition of knowledge, and the structure of epistemic justification
• Offers coverage of more specific topics, such as foundationalism vs coherentism, and virtue epistemology
• Presents wholly new sections on 'Testimony, Memory, and Perception' and 'The Value of Knowledge'
• Features modified sections on 'The Structure of Knowledge and Justification', 'The Non-Epistemic in Epistemology', and 'The Nature of the Epistemic'
• Includes many of the most important contributions made in recent decades by several outstanding authors

TopTable of Contents

Preface to the Second Edition
Acknowledgments
Part I: Skepticism:
Introduction
1. The Problem of the External World: Barry Stroud
2. Proof of an External World: G. E. Moore
3. Four Forms of Scepticism: G. E. Moore
4. Certainty: G. E. Moore
5. How a Pyrrhonian Skeptic Might Respond to Academic Skepticism: Peter Klein
6. Epistemological Realism: Michael Williams
Part II: The Structure of Knowledge and Justification:
Introduction
7. The Myth of the Given: Roderick M. Chisholm
8. Does Empirical Knowledge Have a Foundation?: Wilfrid Sellars
9. Epistemic Principles: Wilfrid Sellars
10. Can Empirical Knowledge Have a Foundation?: Laurence BonJour
11. A Coherence Theory of Truth and Knowledge: Donald Davidson
12. A Foundherentist Theory of Empirical Justification: Susan Haack
13. The Raft and the Pyramid: Ernest Sosa
14. Human Knowledge and the Infinite Regress of Reasons: Peter Klein
Part III: Defining Knowledge:
Introduction
15. Is Justified True Belief Knowledge?: Edmund Gettier
16. Thought, Selections: Gilbert Harman
17. The Inescapability of Gettier Problems: Linda Zagzebski
18. A State of Mind: Timothy Williamson
Part IV: Epistemic Closure:
Introduction
19. Epistemic Operators: Fred Dretske
20. Relevant Alternatives and Deductive Closure: Gail Stine
21. Knowledge and Skepticism: Robert Nozick
22. How to Defeat Opposition to Moore: Ernest Sosa
23. Are There Counterexamples to the Closure Principle?: Jonathan Vogel
Part V: Theories of Epistemic Justification:
Introduction
24. Evidentialism: Richard Feldman and Earl Conee
25. Skepticism and Rationality: Richard Foley
26. What is Justified Belief?: Alvin I. Goldman
27. Reliabilism Leveled: Jonathan Vogel
28. Externalist Theories of Justification: Laurence BonJour
29. Internalism Exposed: Alvin Goldman
30. Externalism and Skepticism: Richard Fumerton
31. Internalism Defended: Richard Feldman and Earl Conee
Part VI: Virtue Epistemology and the Value of Knowledge:
Introduction
32. Warrant: A First Approximation: Alvin Plantinga
33. Virtues of the Mind, Selections: Linda Zagzebski
34. Virtues and Vices of Virtue Epistemology: John Greco
35. Cognitive Responsibility and the Epistemic Virtues: Duncan Pritchard
36. The Place of Truth in Epistemology: Ernest Sosa
37. Why Should Enquiring Minds Want to Know? Meno Problems and Epistemological Axiology: Jonathan L. Kvanvig
38. True Enough: Catherine Z. Elgin
Part VII: Naturalized Epistemology and the A Priori:
Introduction
39. Epistemology Naturalized: W. V. Quine
40. What is "Naturalized Epistemology"?: Jaegwon Kim
41. Quine as Feminist: the Radical Import of Naturalized Epistemology: Louise M. Antony
42. There is at Least One A Priori Truth: Hilary Putnam
43. Revisability, Reliabilism, and A Priori Knowledge: Albert Casullo
44. A Priori Knowledge and the Scope of Philosophy: George Bealer
45. Normativity and Epistemic Intuitions: Jonathan M. Weinberg, Shaun Nichols, and Stephen Stich
46. Normativity and Natural Knowledge: Hilary Kornblith
Part VIII: Knowledge and the Pragmatic:
Introduction
47. Solving the Skeptical Problem: Keith DeRose
48. Elusive Knowledge: David Lewis
49. Contextualist Solutions to Epistemological Problems: Scepticism, Gettier, and the Lottery: Stewart Cohen
50. Knowledge and Practical Interest, Selections: Jason Stanley
51. Evidence, Pragmatics, and Justification: Jeremy Fantl and Matthew McGrath
52. Sensitive Moderate Invariantism: John Hawthorne
53. The Assessment-Sensitivity of Knowledge Attributions: John MacFarlane
Part IX: Testimony, Memory, and Perception:
Introduction
54. Trust and Rationality: Judith Baker
55. Against Gullibility: Elizabeth Fricker
56. Content Preservation: Tyler Burge
57. Testimonial Knowledge and Transmission: Jennifer Lackey
58. The Problem of Memory Knowledge: Michael Huemer
59. Criteria, Defeasibility, and Knowledge: John McDowell
60. Knowing How to Believe With Justification" Steven L. Reynolds
Index

TopAbout the Author

Ernest Sosa is Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University. He is the author of Knowledge in Perspective (1991) and A Virtue Epistemology (2007), and co-editor (with John Greco) of The Blackwell Guide to Epistemology (1999) and other texts.

Jaegwon Kim has taught at Cornell University, Johns Hopkins University, and the University of Michigan. He is currently the William Perry Faunce Professor of Philosophy at Brown University. He has authored and edited several philosophical texts, including Supervenience and the Mind (1993) and Physicalism, or Something Near Enough (2005).

Jeremy Fantl is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Calgary. He and Matthew McGrath are writing a book entitled Pragmatic Encroachment in Epistemology.

Matthew McGrath is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Missouri-Columbia. He is the author of Between Deflationism and the Correspondence Theory (2000) and is co-authoring Pragmatic Encroachment in Epistemology with Jeremy Fantl.