Human Knowledge Classical and Contemporary Approaches

by Moser, Paul K.; vander Nat, Arnold

• ISBN13: 9780195149661
• ISBN10: 0195149661
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-08-29
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Offering a unique and wide-ranging examination of the theory of knowledge, the new edition of this comprehensive collection deftly blends readings from the foremost classical sources with the work of important contemporary philosophical thinkers. Human Knowledge: Classical and ContemporaryApproaches, 3/e, offers philosophical examinations of epistemology from ancient Greek and Roman philosophy (Plato, Aristotle, Sextus Empiricus); medieval philosophy (Augustine, Aquinas); early modern philosophy (Descartes, Locke, Leibniz, Berkeley, Hume, Reid, Kant); classical pragmatism andAnglo-American empiricism (James, Russell, Ayer, Lewis, Carnap, Quine, Rorty); and other influential Anglo-American philosophers (Chisholm, Kripke, Moore, Wittgenstein, Strawson, Putnam). Organized chronologically and thematically, Human Knowledge, 3/e, features exceptionally broad coverage and nontechnical selections that are easily accessible to students. An ideal text for both undergraduate and graduate courses in epistemology, it is enhanced by the editors' substantialgeneral introduction, section overviews, and up-to-date bibliographies. The third edition offers expanded selections on contemporary epistemology and adds selections by Thomas Reid, Richard Rorty, David B. Annis, Richard Feldman and Earl Conee, Ernest Sosa, Barry Stroud, and Louise M. Antony. HumanKnowledge, 3/e, offers an unparalleled introduction to our ancient struggle to understand our own intellectual experience.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
General Introduction: Humun Knowledge-Its Nature, Sources, and Limits	1	(30)
Paul K. Moser
Arnold vander Nat
PART I CLASSICAL SOURCES
Greek and Medieval Sources	31	(80)
Meno; Phaedo; Republic; Theaetetus	35	(27)
Plato
Posterior Analytics; De Anima	62	(19)
Aristotle
Outlines of Pyrrhonism	81	(11)
Sextus Empiricus
Contra Academicos; De Civitas Dei	92	(4)
Augustine
Summa Theologiae	96	(15)
Thomas Aquinas
Early Modern Sources	111	(106)
Meditations on First Philosophy	114	(14)
Rene Descartes
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding	128	(21)
John Locke
Introduction to New Essays on the Human Understanding	149	(7)
Gottfried Leibniz
A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge	156	(11)
George Berkeley
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding	167	(18)
David Hume
Inquiry into the Human Mind	185	(14)
Thomas Reid
Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics	199	(18)
Immanuel Kant
PART II CONTEMPORARY SOURCES
Pragmatism and Empiricism	217	(88)
The Will to Believe	225	(12)
William James
Appearance, Reality, and Knowledge by Acquaintance	237	(9)
Bertrand Russell
Verification and Philosophy	246	(12)
A. J. Ayer
The Pragmatic Element in Knowledge	258	(11)
Clarence Irving Lewis
Empiricism, Semantics, and Ontology	269	(11)
Rudolf Carnap
Two Dogmas of Empiricism	280	(14)
W. V. Quine
Pragmatism, Relativism, and Irrationalism	294	(11)
Richard Rorty
The Analysis of Knowledge	305	(16)
Is Justified True Belief Knowledge?	306	(2)
Edmund Gettier
An Alleged Defect in Gettier Counter-Examples	308	(1)
Richard Feldman
The Gettier Problem	309	(12)
John Pollock
A Priori Knowledge	321	(36)
A Pragmatic Conception of the A Priori	322	(6)
Clarence Irving Lewis
The Truths of Reason	328	(18)
Roderick M. Chisholm
A Priori Knowledge, Necessity, and Contingency	346	(11)
Saul A. Kripke
Justified Belief	357	(80)
Concepts of Epistemic Justification	359	(21)
William P. Alston
The Raft and the Pyramid: Coherence versus Foundations in the Theory of Knowledge	380	(17)
Ernest Sosa
A Contextualist Theory of Epistemic Justification	397	(7)
David B. Annis
Evidentialism	404	(12)
Richard Feldman
Earl Conee
Reflective Equilibrium, Analytic Epistemology and the Problem of Cognitive Diversity	416	(21)
Stephen Stich
Skepticism	437	(64)
Proof of an External World	439	(13)
G. E. Moore
Cause and Effect: Intuitive Awareness	452	(9)
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Skepticism, Naturalism and Transcendental Arguments	461	(12)
P. F. Strawson
Philosophical Scepticism and Epistemic Circularity	473	(16)
Ernest Sosa
Scepticism, `Externalism', and the Goal of Epistemology	489	(12)
Barry Stroud
Epistemology and Psychology	501	(74)
Epistemology Naturalized	502	(10)
W. V. Quine
Why Reason Can't Be Naturalized	512	(11)
Hilary Putnam
Epistemic Folkways and Scientific Epistemology	523	(16)
Alvin I. Goldman
Quine as Feminist: The Radical Import of Naturalized Epistemology	539	(36)
Louise M. Antony
Name Index	575	(3)
Subject Index	578