Pathways to Knowledge Private and Public

by Goldman, Alvin I.

• ISBN13: 9780195173673
• ISBN10: 0195173678
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-04-08
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

How can we know? How can we attain justified belief? These traditional questions in epistemology have inspired philosophers for centuries. Now, in this exceptional work, Alvin Goldman, distinguished scholar and leader in the fields of epistemology and mind, approaches such inquiries aslegitimate methods or "pathways" to knowledge. He examines the notion of private and public knowledge, arguing for the epistemic legitimacy of private and introspective methods of gaining knowledge, yet acknowledging the equal importance of social and public mechanisms in the quest for truth.Throughout, he addresses this opposition but proposes a rigorous framework that resolves such tensions, making this collection of papers one of the most important contributions to the theory of knowledge in recent years.

Author Biography

Alvin I. Goldman is Board of Governors Professor of Philosophy and Cognitive Science at Rutgers University. The author of Knowledge in a Social World, Philosophical Applications of Cognitive Science, Epistemology and Cognition, and several other books, he has pioneered many influential ideas that have shaped the contours of contemporary epistemology.

Table of Contents

PART I INTERNALISM, THE A PRIORI, AND EPISTEMIC VIRTUE
1 Internalism Exposed	3	(21)
2 A Priori Warrant and Naturalistic Epistemology	24	(27)
3 The Unity of the Epistemic Virtues	51	(22)
PART II INTUITION, INTROSPECTION, AND CONSCIOUSNESS
4 Philosophical Theory and Intuitional Evidence (with Joel Pust)	73	(22)
5 Science, Publicity, and Consciousness	95	(19)
6 Can Science Know When You're Conscious?	114	(25)
PART III SOCIAL EPISTEMOLOGY
7 Experts: Which Ones Should You Trust?	139	(25)
8 Social Routes to Belief and Knowledge	164	(18)
9 What Is Social Epistemology? A Smorgasbord of Projects	182	(23)
References	205	(14)
Index	219