Knowledge Readings in Contemporary Epistemology

by Bernecker, Sven; Dretske, Fred I.

• ISBN13: 9780198752615
• ISBN10: 019875261X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-06-01
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

In this anthology, distinguished editors Fred Dretske and Sven Bernecker offer the most comprehensive review available of contemporary epistemology. They bring together the most important and influential writings in the field, including frequently neglected topics such as dominant responses to skepticism, introspection, memory, and testimony. Knowledge is divided into fifteen subject areas and includes forty-one readings by eminent contributors.

Author Biography

Sven Bernecker is Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Munich.
Fred Dretske is Bella and Eloise Knapp Professor in the Humanities, Emeritus, at Stanford University and Senior Research Scholar at Duke University.

Table of Contents

Part I Justified True Belief
Introduction	3	(4)
The Gettier Problem
Knowing as having the right to be sure	7	(6)
A. J. Ayer
Is justified true belief knowledge?	13	(3)
Edmund L. Gettier
An alleged defect in Gettier counter-examples	16	(2)
Richard Feldman
Responses to Gettier
A causal theory of knowing	18	(13)
Alvin I. Goldman
Knowledge: undefeated justified true belief	31	(11)
Keith Lehrer
Thomas D. Paxson, Jr.
Conclusive reasons	42	(30)
Fred Dretske
Part II Externalism and Internalism
Introduction	65	(7)
Externalism
The thermometer-model of knowledge	72	(14)
David M. Armstrong
Discrimination and perceptual knowledge	86	(17)
Alvin I. Goldman
Precis of Knowledge and the Flow of Information	103	(15)
Fred Dretske
Internalism
The indispensability of internal justification	118	(10)
Roderick M. Chisholm
The elements of coherentism	128	(21)
Laurence BonJour
The coherence theory of knowledge	149	(17)
Keith Lehrer
Criticisms and Compromises
What's wrong with reliabilism?	166	(12)
Richard Foley
Externalist theories of empirical knowledge	178	(21)
Laurence BonJour
A rationale for reliabilism	199	(15)
Kent Bach
An internalist externalism	214	(21)
William P. Alston
Part III Foundations and Norms
Introduction	231	(4)
Foundations
The given	235	(10)
H. H. Price
The directly evident	245	(15)
Roderick M. Chisholm
Does empirical knowledge have a foundation?	260	(6)
Wilfrid Sellars
Normativity
Epistemology naturalized	266	(13)
W. V. Quine
What is `naturalized epistemology'?	279	(28)
Jaegwon Kim
Part IV Scepticism
Introduction	301	(6)
Motivations
Understanding human knowledge in general	307	(17)
Barry Stroud
A defense of skepticism	324	(15)
Peter Unger
Relevant Alternatives
Other minds	339	(8)
J. L. Austin
Knowledge and scepticism	347	(19)
Robert Nozick
Elusive knowledge	366	(19)
David Lewis
Semantic Approaches
Brains in a vat	385	(15)
Hilary Putnam
The epistemology of belief	400	(13)
Fred Dretske
A coherence theory of truth and knowledge	413	(29)
Donald Davidson
Part V Sources of Knowledge
Introduction	431	(11)
Perception
The causal theory of perception	442	(10)
H. P. Grice
Perception and its objects	452	(16)
Peter F. Strawson
Introspection
Individualism and self-knowledge	468	(12)
Tyler Burge
Content and self-knowledge	480	(19)
Paul A. Boghossian
Externalism and the attitudinal component of self-knowledge	499	(13)
Sven Bernecker
Memory and Testimony
Remembering	512	(25)
C. B. Martin
Max Deutscher
Testimony and observation	537	(10)
C. A. J. Coady
Induction
On induction	547	(5)
Bertrand Russell
The pragmatic justification of induction	552	(4)
Hans Reichenbach
The new riddle of induction	556	(6)
Nelson Goodman
Priori Knowledge
A priori knowledge, necessity, and contingency	562	(12)
Saul A. Kripke
A priori knowledge	574	(15)
Philip Kitcher
Notes on the Contributors	589	(3)
Index of Names	592