Oxford Studies in Epistemology Volume 3

by Gendler, Tamar Szabo; Hawthorne, John

• ISBN13: 9780199584086
• ISBN10: 0199584087
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-08-13
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Oxford Studies in Epistemologyis a biennial publicaton which offers a regular snapshot of state-of-the-art work in this important field. Under the guidance of a distinguished editorial board composed of leading philosophers in North America, Europe and Australasia, it publishes exemplary papers in epistemology, broadly construed. Topics within its purview include: *traditional epistemological questions concerning the nature of belief, justification, and knowledge, the status of scepticism, the nature of thea priori,etc *new developments in epistemology, including movements such as naturalized epistemology, feminist epistemology, social epistemology, and virtue epistemology, and approaches such as contextualism *foundational questions in decision-theory *confirmation theory and other branches of philosophy of science that bear on traditional issues in epistemology *topics in the philosophy of perception relevant to epistemology *topics in cognitive science, computer science, developmental, cognitive, and social psychology that bear directly on traditional epistemological questions *work that examines connections between epistemology and other branches of philosophy, including work on testimony and the ethics of belief Anyone wanting to understand the latest developments at the leading edge of the discipline can start here.

Author Biography

Tamar Szabo Gendler is Professor of Philosophy at Yale University John Hawthorne is Waynflete Professor of Metaphysical Philosophy at the University of Oxford

Table of Contents

Putting a Value on Beauty

Skeptical Success

Seeing What You're Doing

Unravelling the Tangled Web: Continuity, Internalism, Uniqueness and Self-Locating Belief

Confidence and Coarse-Grained Attitudes

There Are No Rational Pairs of Contradictory Beliefs (Whatever Some Philosophers of Language Say)

Evidential Symmetry and Mushy Credence

Special Theme: Social Epistemology Guest Editor

Systems-Oriented Social Epistemology

The Aggregation of Propositional Attitudes: Towards a General Theory

Can There Be Institutional Virtues?

Selective Trust in Testimony: Children's Evaluation of the Message, the Speaker and the Speech Act

What Should We Do When We Disagree?

Reconsidering Authority: Scientific Expertise, Bounded Rationality, and Epistemic Backtracking

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