Epistemology: An Anthology

by Editor: Ernest Sosa (Rutgers University); Editor: Jaegwon Kim (Brown University)

• ISBN13: 9780631197249
• ISBN10: 0631197249
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-02-01
• Publisher: Wiley

Summary

This volume represents the most comprehensive and authoritative collection of canonical readings in theory of knowledge. It is ideal as a reader for all courses in epistemology.

Author Biography

Ernest Sosa has taught since 1964 at Brown University, where he is now Romeo Elton Professor of Natural Theology and Professor of Philosophy. He is the author of Knowledge in Perspective (1991). He is co-editor (with John Greco) of The Blackwell Guide to Epistemology (1999); and co-editor (with Jaegwon Kim) of A Companion to Metaphysics (Blackwell, 1995) and Metaphysics: An Anthology (Blackwell, 1998).

Jaegwon Kim has taught at Cornell University, Johns Hopkins University, and the University of Michigan, and is now William Perry Faunce Professor of Philosophy at Brown University. He is the author of Supervenience and the Mind (1993) and Philosophy of Mind (1996), and the editor, with Ernest Sosa, of A Companion to Metaphysics (Blackwell, 1995) and Metaphysics: An Anthology (Blackwell, 1998).

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Acknowledgments	x
Part I Skepticism	1	(52)
Introduction	3	(3)
The Problem of the External World	6	(18)
Barry Stroud
Proof of an External World	24	(3)
G. E. Moore
Four Forms of Scepticism	27	(2)
G. E. Moore
Certainty	29	(4)
G. E. Moore
Skepticism, Naturalism and Transcendental Arguments	33	(9)
P. F. Strawson
An Argument for Skepticism	42	(11)
Peter Unger
Part II Defining Knowledge	53	(50)
Introduction	55	(3)
Is Justified True Belief Knowledge?	58	(2)
Edmund Gettier
A Proposed Definition of Propositional Knowledge	60	(7)
Peter Klein
Selections from Thought	67	(12)
Gilbert Harman
Knowledge and Skepticism	79	(24)
Robert Nozick
Part III Contemporary Foundationalism and Coherentism	103	(62)
Introduction	105	(2)
The Myth of the Given	107	(13)
Roderick M. Chisholm
Does Empirical Knowledge Have a Foundation?	120	(5)
Wilfrid Sellars
Epistemic Principles	125	(9)
Wilfrid Sellars
The Raft and the Pyramid	134	(20)
Ernest Sosa
A Coherence Theory of Truth and Knowledge	154	(11)
Donald Davidson
Part IV Epistemic Justification	165	(72)
Introduction	167	(3)
Evidentialism	170	(12)
Richard Feldman
Earl Conee
Skepticism and Rationality	182	(10)
Richard Foley
Epistemic Norms	192	(34)
John Pollock
A Foundherentist Theory of Empirical Justification	226	(11)
Susan Haack
Part V The Pyrrhonian Problematic	237	(50)
Introduction	239	(3)
Foundationalism, Epistemic Principles, and the Cartesian Circle	242	(19)
James Van Cleve
Can Empirical Knowledge Have a Foundation?	261	(13)
Laurence BonJour
Reflective Knowledge in the Best Circles	274	(13)
Ernest Sosa
Part VI Epistemology Naturalized	287	(48)
Introduction	289	(3)
Epistemology Naturalized	292	(9)
W. V. Quine
What Is ``Naturalized Epistemology''?	301	(13)
Jaegwon Kim
Why Reason Can't Be Naturalized	314	(11)
Hilary Putnam
The Old Skepticism, the New Foundationalism, and Naturalized Epistemology	325	(10)
Robert Audi
Part VII Epistemic Externalism	335	(98)
Introduction	337	(3)
What Is Justified Belief?	340	(14)
Alvin I. Goldman
How to Think about Reliability	354	(18)
William P. Alston
The Generality Problem for Reliabilism	372	(15)
Earl Conee
Richard Feldman
Externalism and Epistemology Naturalized	387	(14)
Keith Lehrer
Externalism and Skepticism	401	(12)
Richard Fumerton
Knowledge and the Internal	413	(11)
John McDowell
Knowledge and the Social Articulation of the Space of Reasons	424	(9)
Robert Brandom
Part VIII Virtue Epistemology and Proper Cognitive Functioning	433	(44)
Introduction	435	(3)
Epistemic Folkways and Scientific Epistemology	438	(7)
Alvin I. Goldman
Warrant: A First Approximation	445	(12)
Alvin Plantinga
Virtues of the Mind	457	(11)
Linda Zagzebski
Virtues and Vices of Virtue Epistemology	468	(9)
John Greco
Part IX Epistemic Contextualism	477	(54)
Introduction	479	(3)
Solving the Skeptical Problem	482	(21)
Keith DeRose
Elusive Knowledge	503	(14)
David Lewis
Contextualist Solutions to Epistemological Problems: Scepticism, Gettier, and the Lottery	517	(14)
Stewart Cohen
Part X Relativism	531	(53)
Introduction	533	(3)
Epistemological Realism	536	(20)
Michael Williams
Justification, Meta-Epistemology, and Meaning	556	(15)
Paul Moser
Reflective Equilibrium, Analytic Epistemology, and the Problem of Cognitive Diversity	571	(13)
Stephen Stich
Index	584