Oxford Studies in Epistemology Volume 1

by Gendler, Tamar Szabo; Hawthorne, John

• ISBN13: 9780199285891
• ISBN10: 0199285896
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-02-09
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Oxford Studies in Epistemology is a major new biennial volume offering a regular snapshot of state-of-the-art work in this important field. Under the guidance of a distinguished editorial board composed of leading philosophers in North America, Europe, and Australasia, it will publish exemplary papers in epistemology, broadly construed. Anyone wanting to understand the latest developments at the leading edge of the discipline can start here. Editorial board includes Stewart Cohen, Keith DeRose, Richard Fumerton, Alvin Goldman, Alan Hajek, Gilbert Harman, Frank Jackson, James Joyce, Scott Sturgeon, Jonathan Vogel, and Timothy Williamson.

Table of Contents

List of Figures	x
List of Contributors	xi
Abductive Knowledge and Holmesian Inference	1	(32)
Alexander Bird
The Fallacy of Epistemicism	33	(36)
James Cargile
Recent Debates about the A Priori	69	(20)
Hartry Field
Our Knowledge of Mathematical Objects	89	(22)
Kit Fine
Sleeping Beauty Reconsidered: Conditioning and Reflection in Asynchronous Systems	111	(32)
Joseph Halpern
Doubt, Deference, and Deliberation: Understanding and Using the Division of Cognitive Labor	143	(24)
Frank Keil
The Epistemic Significance of Disagreement	167	(30)
Thomas Kelly
The Assessment Sensitivity of Knowledge Attributions	197	(38)
John MacFarlane
Contrastive Knowledge	235	(38)
Jonathan Schaffer
Paradox and the A Priori	273	(38)
Stephen Schiffer
Scepticism, Rationalism, and Externalism	311	(21)
Brian Weatherson
Index	332