Epistemology: The Classic Readings

by Cooper, David E.

• ISBN13: 9780631210887
• ISBN10: 0631210881
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-01-26
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

From Plato to Quine, this volume provides a concise collection of the essential, classic readings in theory of knowledge.

Author Biography

David E. Cooper is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Durham. He is the author of a number of books including Metaphor (1986), Existentialism (1990), and World Philosophies: An Historical Introduction (1996). He is also editor of the Blackwell Companion to Aesthetics (1992), Aesthetics: the Classic Readings (1997), and Ethics: the Classic Readings (1998). All of the above are published by Blackwell Publishers.

Table of Contents

Series Preface	vii
Acknowledgements	viii
Introduction	1	(12)
Plato, Republic, 475e--480a, 506d--518c	13	(19)
Aristotle, Posterior Analytics, Book I, 1--4, 31 and Book II, 19	32	(11)
Sextus Empiricus, Outlines of Pyrrhonism, Book I, Sections 1--16, 18--27	43	(17)
The Book of Chuang Tzu, Chapter 2	60	(13)
The Nyaya-Sutras, from Book I, Chapter 1 and Book II, Chapter 1, with Vatsyayana's Commentary	73	(14)
Nagarjuna, Vigrahavyavartani, Verses 5--6, 30--51	87	(10)
Rene Descartes, Meditations on First Philosophy, I--III and `Objections and Replies' (Selections)	97	(20)
(A)An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Book I, Chapter 2, Sections 1--24	117	(17)
John Locke
(B)New Essays on the Human Understanding, Preface
G. W. Leibniz
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section 12	134	(14)
David Hume
Essays on the Intellectual Powers of Man, Essay 6, Chapter 5	148	(16)
Thomas Reid
Critique of Pure Reason, Introduction (2nd Edition), Sections I--VI	164	(16)
Immanuel Kant
`On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense'	180	(16)
Friedrich Nietzsche
`Some Consequences of Four Incapacities' (Excerpt) and `The Fixation of Belief'	196	(18)
Charles S. Peirce
The Idea of Phenomenology, Lectures 1--2	214	(18)
Edmund Husserl
`Knowledge by Acquaintance and Knowledge by Description'	232	(10)
Bertrand Russell
`On the Foundation of Knowledge'	242	(19)
Moritz Schlick
On Certainty, Sections 1--42, 91--105, 192--284	261	(20)
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Index	281