Oxford Studies in Epistemology Volume 1

by Gendler, Tamar Szabo; Hawthorne, John

• ISBN13: 9780199285907
• ISBN10: 019928590X
• Format: Paperback
• 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 exemplarypapers in epistemology, broadly construed. Topics within its purview include: *traditional epistemological questions concerning the nature of belief, justification, and knowledge, the status of scepticism, the nature of the a priori, etc; *new developments in epistemology, including movements such as naturalized epistemology, feminist epistemology, social epistemology, and virtue epistemology, and approaches such as contextualism; *foundational questions in decision-theory; *confirmation theory and other branches of philosophy of science that bear on traditional issues in epistemology; *topics in the philosophy of perception relevant to epistemology; *topics in cognitive science, computer science, developmental, cognitive, and social psychology that bear directly on traditional epistemological questions; and *work that examines connections between epistemology and other branches of philosophy, including work on testimony and the ethics of belief. Anyone wanting to understand the latest developments at the leading edge of the discipline can start here.Editorial BoardStewart Cohen, Arizona State UniversityKeith DeRose, Yale UniversityRichard Fumerton, University of IowaAlvin Goldman, Rutgers UniversityAlan Hajek, Australian National UniversityGilbert Harman, Princeton UniversityFrank Jackson, Australian National UniversityJames Joyce, University of MichiganScott Sturgeon, Birkbeck College LondonJonathan Vogel, Amherst CollegeTimothy Williamson, University of Oxford

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