Epistemology : An Anthology

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

• ISBN13: 9781405169660
• ISBN10: 1405169664
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-02-11
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

The most comprehensive and authoritative collection of canonical readings in theory of knowledge, now updated in response to feedback from the classroom 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

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	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xi
Skepticism	p. 1
Introduction	p. 3
The Problem of the External World	p. 7
Proof of an External World	p. 26
Four Forms of Scepticism	p. 29
Certainty	p. 31
How a Pyrrhonian Skeptic Might Respond to Academic Skepticism	p. 35
Epistemological Realism	p. 51
The Structure of Knowledge and Justification	p. 73
Introduction	p. 75
The Myth of the Given	p. 80
Does Empirical Knowledge Have a Foundation?	p. 94
Epistemic Principles	p. 99
Can Empirical Knowledge Have a Foundation?	p. 109
A Coherence Theory of Truth and Knowledge	p. 124
A Foundherentist Theory of Empirical Justification	p. 134
The Raft and the Pyramid	p. 145
Human Knowledge and the Infinite Regress of Reasons	p. 165
Defining Knowledge	p. 187
Introduction	p. 189
Is Justified True Belief Knowledge?	p. 192
Thought, Selections	p. 194
The Inescapability of Gettier Problems	p. 207
A State of Mind	p. 213
Epistemic Closure	p. 231
Introduction	p. 233
Epistemic Operators	p. 237
Skepticism, Relevant Alternatives, and Deductive Closure	p. 247
Knowledge and Skepticism	p. 255
How to Defeat Opposition to Moore	p. 280
Are There Counterexamples to the Closure Principle?	p. 290
Theories of Epistemic Justification	p. 303
Introduction	p. 305
Evidentialism	p. 310
Skepticism and Rationality	p. 322
What Is Justified Belief?	p. 333
Reliabilism Leveled	p. 348
Externalist Theories of Empirical Knowledge	p. 363
Internalism Exposed	p. 379
Externalism and Skepticism	p. 394
Internalism Defended	p. 407
Virtue Epistemology and the Value of Knowledge	p. 423
Introduction	p. 425
Warrant: A First Approximation	p. 429
Virtues of the Mind, Selections	p. 442
Virtues and Vices of Virtue Epistemology	p. 454
Cognitive Responsibility and the Epistemic Virtues	p. 462
The Place of Truth in Epistemology	p. 477
Why Should Inquiring Minds Want to Know?: Meno Problems and Epistemological Axiology	p. 492
True Enough	p. 507
Naturalized Epistemology and the A Priori	p. 521
Introduction	p. 523
Epistemology Naturalized	p. 528
What Is "Naturalized Epistemology"?	p. 538
Quine as Feminist: The Radical Import of Naturalized Epistemology	p. 552
There is at Least One A Priori Truth	p. 585
Revisability, Reliabilism, and A Priori Knowledge	p. 595
A Priori Knowledge and the Scope of Philosophy	p. 612
Normativity and Epistemic Intuitions	p. 625
Investigating Knowledge Itself	p. 647
Knowledge and Context	p. 661
Introduction	p. 663
Solving the Skeptical Problem	p. 669
Elusive Knowledge	p. 691
Contextualist Solutions to Epistemological Problems: Scepticism, Gettier, and the Lottery	p. 706
Knowledge and Practical Interest, Selections	p. 721
Evidence, Pragmatics, and Justification	p. 742
Sensitive Moderate Invariantism	p. 760
The Assessment Sensitivity of Knowledge Attributions	p. 779
Testimony, Memory, and Perception	p. 801
Introduction	p. 803
Trust and Rationality	p. 807
Against Gullibility	p. 815
Content Preservation	p. 836
Testimonial Knowledge and Transmission	p. 855
The Problem of Memory Knowledge	p. 868
Criteria, Defeasibility, and Knowledge	p. 876
Knowing How to Believe With Justification	p. 892
Index	p. 903
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