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Knowledge Readings in Contemporary Epistemology

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ISBN-10: 019875261X

ISBN-13: 9780198752615

Edition: 2000

Authors: Sven Bernecker, Fred I. Dretske

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Epistemology, or the theory of knowledge, is concerned with how we know what we do and what justifies us in believing what we do. The philosophical literature in epistemology has mushroomed in the past four decades, and interest in the topic continues to be widespread. In this anthology, Fred Dretske and Sven Bernecker have collected the most important and influential writings in epistemology. It provides the fullest review to date of contemporary epistemology, including frequently neglected topics such as dominant responses to scepticism, introspection, memory, and testimony. Forty-one readings are organized into fifteen subject areas that are key to a broad understanding of contemporary…    
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List price: $109.99
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 6/1/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 606
Size: 6.77" wide x 9.69" long x 1.18" tall
Weight: 2.2
Language: English

Justified True Belief
Introduction: The Gettier Problem
Knowing as Having the Right to be Sure
Is Justified True Belief Knowledge?
An Alleged Defect in Gettier Counter-Examples
Responses to Gettier
A Causal Theory of Knowing
Knowledge: Undefeated Justified True Belief
Conclusive Reasons
Introduction: tExternalism
The 'Thermometer' View of Knowledge
Discrimination and Perceptual Knowledge
Precis of 'Knowledge and the Flow of Information'
Internalism
The Indispensability of Internal Justification
The Elements of Coherentism
The Coherence Theory of Knowledge
Criticisms and Compromises
What's Wrong with Reliabilism?
Externalist Theories of Empirical Knowledge
A Rationale for Reliabilism
An Internalist Externalism
Foundations and Norms
Introduction: Foundations
The Given
The Directly Evident
Does Empirical Knowledge have a Foundation?
Normativity
Naturalized Epistemology
What is Naturalized Epistemology?
Skepticism
Introduction: Motivations
Understanding Human Knowledge in General
A defence of Skepticism
Relevant Alternatives
Other Minds
Knowledge and Scepticism
Elusive Knowledge
Semantic Approaches
Brains in a Vat
The Epistemology of Belief
A Coherence Theory of Truth and Knowledge
Sources of Knowledge
Introduction: Perception
The Causal Theory of Perception
Perception and its Objects
Introspection
Individualism and Self-Knowledge
Content and Self-Knowledge
Externalism and the Attitudinal Component of Self-Knowledge
Memory and Testimony
Remembering
Testimony and Observation
Induction
On Induction
The Pragmatic Justification of Induction
The New Riddle of Induction
A Priori Knowledge
A Priori Knowledge, Necessity, and Contingency
A Priori Knowledge
Index