Human Knowledge Classical and Contemporary Approaches

by Moser, Paul K.; vander Nat, Arnold

• ISBN13: 9780195041491
• ISBN10: 0195041496
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1987-05-28
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

This collection of readings deftly blends the foremost classical sources with important contemporary philosophical thinkers to present a far-reaching examination of the theory of knowledge. Formative voices of epistemology from Ancient Greek Philosphy, Medieval Philosophy, Classical Modern Philosophy, Pragmatism, and Contemporary Analytic Philosophy are amply represented. Organized chronologically, Human Knowledge presents an impressive collection of non-technical essays from Plato, Aristotle, Sextus Empiricus, Augustine, Aquinas, Ockham, Descartes, Leibniz, Locke, Berkeley, Hume, Kant, James, Dewey, Lewis, Rorry, Quine, Chisolm, Putnam, Gettier, and many others. Each chapter is preceded by an introductory overview and helpful, up-to-date bibliographies provide students of all levels with guides to supplemental readings.

Table of Contents

General Introduction

Classical Sources

Greek and Medieval Sources

Meno;, Plato

Posterior Analytics

De Anima, Aristotle

Outlines of Pyrrhonism, Sextus Empiricus

Contra Academicos

De Civitate Dei, Augustine

Summa Theologiae, Aquinas

Bibliography

Early Modern Sources

Introduction

Meditations on First Philosophy, Descartes

An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Locke

Introduction to New Essays on the Human Understanding, Leibniz

A Treatise Concerning Human Understanding, Berkeley

An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Hume

Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics, Kant

Bibliography

Contemporary Sources

Pragmatism and Empiricism

Introduction

The Will to Believe, James

Appearance, Reality, and Knowledge By Acquaintance, Russell

Verification and Philosophy, Ayer

The Pragmatic Element in Knowledge, Lewis

Empiricism, Semantics, and Ontology, Carnap

Two Dogmas of Empiricism, Quine

Bibliography

The Analysis of Knowledge

Introduction

Is Justified True Belief Knowledge?, Gettier

An Alleged Defect in Gettier Counter-Examples, Feldman

The Gettier Problem, Pollock

Bibliography

A Priori Knowledge

Introduction

A Pragmatic Conception of the A Priori, Lewis

The Truths of Reason, Chisholm

A Priori Knowledge, Necessity, and Cotingency, Kripke

Bibliography

Justified Belief

Introduction

Concepts of Epistemic Justification, Alston

The Raft and the Pyramid: Coherence Versus Foundation in the Theory of Knowledge, Sosa

Strong and Weak Justification, Goldman

Reflective Equilibrium, Analytic Epistemology, and the Problem of Cognitive Diversity, Stich

Bibliography

Skepticism

Introduction

Proof of an External World, Moore

Cause and Effect: Intuitive Awareness, Wittgenstein

Skepticism, Naturalism, and Transcendental Arguments, Strawson

Bibliography

Epistemology and Psychology

Introduction

Epistemology Naturalized, Quine

Why Reason Can't Be Naturalized, Putnam

Epistemic Folkways and Scientific Epistemology, Goldman

Bibliography

Index

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