Epistemology An Anthology

by Sosa, Ernest; Kim, Jaekwon; Fantl, Jeremy; McGrath, Matthew

• ISBN13: 9781405169677
• ISBN10: 1405169672
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-02-11
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

The simplest questions are never so simple. "What is knowledge?" has been pondered for millennia-and continues to engage the most brilliant philosophical minds. With all central topics in the field included-skepticism, the Pyrrhonian problematic, the structure of epistemic justification, and many more-Epistemology: An Anthology continues to represent the most comprehensive and authoritative collection of canonical readings in the theory of knowledge. In addition to including all-new sections on Testimony, Memory, and Perception; and the Value of Knowledge, the editors have updated the selections on the Structure of Knowledge and Justification, the Non-Epistemic in Epistemology, and the Nature of the Epistemic from the first edition. Striking an excellent balance between traditional theories and cutting edge contemporary methodologies, Epistemology: An Anthology is an essential compendium for all philosophers concerned with the latest developments in the theory of knowledge.

Author Biography

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.

Table of Contents

Preface to the Second Edition Acknowledgments

Skepticism: Introduction

The Problem of the External World

Proof of an External World

Four Forms of Scepticism

Certainty

How a Pyrrhonian Skeptic Might Respond to Academic Skepticism

Epistemological Realism

The Structure of Knowledge and Justification: Introduction

The Myth of the Given

Does Empirical Knowledge Have a Foundation?

Epistemic Principles

Can Empirical Knowledge Have a Foundation?

A Coherence Theory of Truth and Knowledge

A Foundherentist Theory of Empirical Justification

The Raft and the Pyramid

Human Knowledge and the Infinite Regress of Reasons

Defining Knowledge: Introduction

Is Justified True Belief Knowledge?

Thought, Selections

The Inescapability of Gettier Problems

A State of Mind

Epistemic Closure: Introduction

Epistemic Operators

Relevant Alternatives and Deductive Closure

Knowledge and Skepticism

How to Defeat Opposition to Moore

Are There Counterexamples to the Closure Principle?

Theories of Epistemic Justification: Introduction

Evidentialism

Skepticism and Rationality

What is Justified Belief?

Reliabilism Leveled

Externalist Theories of Justification

Internalism Exposed

Externalism and Skepticism

Internalism Defended

Virtue Epistemology and the Value of Knowledge: Introduction

Warrant: A First Approximation

Virtues of the Mind, Selections

Virtues and Vices of Virtue Epistemology

Cognitive Responsibility and the Epistemic Virtues

The Place of Truth in Epistemology

Why Should Enquiring Minds Want to Know? Meno Problems and Epistemological Axiology

True Enough

Naturalized Epistemology and the A Priori: Introduction

Epistemology Naturalized

What is "Naturalized Epistemology"?

Quine as Feminist: the Radical Import of Naturalized Epistemology

There is at Least One A Priori Truth

Revisability, Reliabilism, and A Priori Knowledge

A Priori Knowledge and the Scope of Philosophy

Normativity and Epistemic Intuitions

Normativity and Natural Knowledge

Knowledge and the Pragmatic: Introduction

Solving the Skeptical Problem

Elusive Knowledge

Contextualist Solutions to Epistemological Problems: Scepticism, Gettier, and the Lottery

Knowledge and Practical Interest, Selections

Evidence, Pragmatics, and Justification

Sensitive Moderate Invariantism

The Assessment-Sensitivity of Knowledge Attributions

Testimony, Memory, and Perception: Introduction

Trust and Rationality

Against Gullibility

Content Preservation

Testimonial

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