Externalism about Knowledge

by Oliveira, Luis R. G.

• ISBN13: 9780198866749
• ISBN10: 0198866747
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2023-11-15
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Externalism about knowledge is thriving in contemporary epistemology. Nonetheless, externalism is too often caricatured as merely reliabilism, too often reduced to simply externalism about justification, and rarely considered as a cohesive family of related but importantly different views. Externalism About Knowledge addresses all of these issues by bringing new essays from leading externalist epistemologists working on seven different branches of this tradition: process reliabilism, tracking views, safety views, virtue epistemology, proper functionalism, naturalized epistemology, and knowledge first epistemology. This collection highlights their unity, their differences, their interconnections, and their most recent challenges, developments, and extensions.

Author Biography

Luis R. G. Oliveira, Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Houston

Luis R. G. Oliveira received his BA from Calvin College and his MA and PhD from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He is now an Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Houston. Professor Oliveira has co-edited two books and published numerous papers in academic journals and book collections on various topics in Epistemology, Philosophy of Religion, and Ethics. He is the director of the international project LATAM Bridges in the Epistemology of Religion.

Table of Contents

1. Methods, Processes, and Knowledge, Jack C. Lyons
2. Surprise! A Social Meta-Epistemology for Process Reliabilism, Sanford C. Goldberg
3. Sensitivity, Discrimination, and Perspective, Kelly Becker
4. Knowledge, Evidence, and Naked Statistics, Sherrilyn Rouch
5. Moderate Knowledge Externalism, Duncan Pritchard
6. The Safety Conception of Knowledge, John Hawthorne, Christina H. Dietz
7. Default Assumptions and Pure Thought, Ernest Sosa
8. Virtue Epistemology and Epistemic Responsibility, Berit Bogaard
9. Proper Functionalism and the Organizational Theory of Functions, Peter J. Graham
10. An Explanationist Defense of Proper Functionalism, Kenneth Boyce
11. Naturalism, Externalism, and Naturalistic Externalism, Andrew Moon
12. How Naturalists can Give Internalists What They Really Want (or Need!), Louise Antony
13. Externalism Explained, Clayton Littlejohn
14. Boghossian, Müller-Lyer, the Parrot, and the Nazi, Timothy Williamson