Knowledge

by Pritchard, Duncan

• ISBN13: 9780230019447
• ISBN10: 0230019447
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-07-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

Knowledgeoffers students not just a state-of-the-art treatment of what is central to current debates in epistemology, but also a new and distinctive perspective on those debates. Many of the main themes in contemporary epistemology are discussed, including:* Virtue epistemology * Anti-luck epistemology * The epistemic externalism/internalism distinction * Epistemological disjunctivism * Epistemic value * Radical scepticism * Contextualism * Neo-Mooreanism * Understanding Written by an expert in the field,Knowledgewill be essential reading for advanced epistemology students.

Author Biography

DUNCAN PRITCHARD is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh, UK. His research is primarily in epistemology, and he has published widely in this area, including two books, Epistemic Luck (2005) and What is This Thing Called Knowledge (2006).

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements * Introduction * Analysing Knowledge * Anti-Luck Epistemology *  Virtue Epistemology * Anti-Luck Virtue Epistemology *  Externalism and Internalism about Knowledge *
Radical Scepticism * Understanding and the Value of Knowledge * Bibliography * Index

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