Skip to content

Epistemology An Anthology

Best in textbook rentals since 2012!

ISBN-10: 1405169664

ISBN-13: 9781405169660

Edition: 2nd 2008 (Revised)

Authors: Ernest Sosa, Jaekwon Kim, Jeremy Fantl, Matthew McGrath, Ernest Sosa

List price: $77.95
Blue ribbon 30 day, 100% satisfaction guarantee!

Rental notice: supplementary materials (access codes, CDs, etc.) are not guaranteed with rental orders.

what's this?
Rush Rewards U
Members Receive:
Carrot Coin icon
XP icon
You have reached 400 XP and carrot coins. That is the daily max!

Description:

The most comprehensive and authoritative collection of canonical readings in theory of knowledge, now updated in response to feedback from the classroom Concentrates on the central topics of the field, such as skepticism and the Pyrrhonian problematic, the definition of knowledge, and the structure of epistemic justification Offers coverage of more specific topics, such as foundationalism vs coherentism, and virtue epistemology Presents wholly new sections on "Testimony, Memory, and Perception" and "The Value of Knowledge" Features modified sections on "The Structure of Knowledge and Justification," "The Non-Epistemic in Epistemology," and "The Nature of the Epistemic" Includes many of…    
Customers also bought

Book details

List price: $77.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
Publication date: 2/11/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 944
Size: 6.80" wide x 9.60" long x 1.90" tall
Weight: 3.696
Language: English

Preface to the Second Edition
Acknowledgments
Skepticism
Introduction
The Problem of the External World
Proof of an External World
Four Forms of Scepticism
Certainty
How a Pyrrhonian Skeptic Might Respond to Academic Skepticism
Epistemological Realism
The Structure of Knowledge and Justification
Introduction
The Myth of the Given
Does Empirical Knowledge Have a Foundation?
Epistemic Principles
Can Empirical Knowledge Have a Foundation?
A Coherence Theory of Truth and Knowledge
A Foundherentist Theory of Empirical Justification
The Raft and the Pyramid
Human Knowledge and the Infinite Regress of Reasons
Defining Knowledge
Introduction
Is Justified True Belief Knowledge?
Thought, Selections
The Inescapability of Gettier Problems
A State of Mind
Epistemic Closure
Introduction
Epistemic Operators
Skepticism, Relevant Alternatives, and Deductive Closure
Knowledge and Skepticism
How to Defeat Opposition to Moore
Are There Counterexamples to the Closure Principle?
Theories of Epistemic Justification
Introduction
Evidentialism
Skepticism and Rationality
What Is Justified Belief?
Reliabilism Leveled
Externalist Theories of Empirical Knowledge
Internalism Exposed
Externalism and Skepticism
Internalism Defended
Virtue Epistemology and the Value of Knowledge
Introduction
Warrant: A First Approximation
Virtues of the Mind, Selections
Virtues and Vices of Virtue Epistemology
Cognitive Responsibility and the Epistemic Virtues
The Place of Truth in Epistemology
Why Should Inquiring Minds Want to Know?: Meno Problems and Epistemological Axiology
True Enough
Naturalized Epistemology and the A Priori
Introduction
Epistemology Naturalized
What Is "Naturalized Epistemology"?
Quine as Feminist: The Radical Import of Naturalized Epistemology
There is at Least One A Priori Truth
Revisability, Reliabilism, and A Priori Knowledge
A Priori Knowledge and the Scope of Philosophy
Normativity and Epistemic Intuitions
Investigating Knowledge Itself
Knowledge and Context
Introduction
Solving the Skeptical Problem
Elusive Knowledge
Contextualist Solutions to Epistemological Problems: Scepticism, Gettier, and the Lottery
Knowledge and Practical Interest, Selections
Evidence, Pragmatics, and Justification
Sensitive Moderate Invariantism
The Assessment Sensitivity of Knowledge Attributions
Testimony, Memory, and Perception
Introduction
Trust and Rationality
Against Gullibility
Content Preservation
Testimonial Knowledge and Transmission
The Problem of Memory Knowledge
Criteria, Defeasibility, and Knowledge
Knowing How to Believe With Justification
Index