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| Preface | |
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| List of Abbreviations | |
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| Introduction | |
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| What Counts as Epistemology? | |
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| Concentration on the Epistemology of Belief | |
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| Basic Organization of the Book | |
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| The Naturalistic Approach | |
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| Dispensing With "Justification" | |
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| Conceptions of Epistemic Justification | |
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| Comments on These Conceptions | |
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| Conditions for the Justification of a Belief | |
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| Attempts to Identify Epistemic Justification | |
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| The Epistemic Point of View | |
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| True Belief as the Basic Goal of Cognition | |
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| Truth and Other Goals of Cognition | |
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| Objects of Epistemic Evaluation | |
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| The Epistemic Desiderata Approach | |
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| A List of Epistemic Desiderata | |
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| An Outline of the Epistemic Desiderata Approach | |
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| Interrelations of Desiderata | |
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| Internalism and Externalism | |
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| Internalism and Externalism on Justificationism and on the Epistemic Desiderata Approach | |
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| Deontological Desiderata | |
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| Preliminaries | |
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| Basic Voluntary Control of Believing | |
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| Other Modes of Voluntary Control of Believing | |
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| Indirect Voluntary Influence on Believing | |
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| Adequacy of Grounds of Belief | |
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| Grounds and the Basing Relation | |
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| Having Evidence and Basing a Belief on It | |
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| Adequacy of Grounds and Truth | |
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| Adequacy of Grounds-Preliminaries | |
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| Adequacy of Grounds and Epistemic Probability | |
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| The Logical Construal of Epistemic Probability | |
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| A Frequency Construal of Epistemic Probability | |
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| Reliability and Other Truth-Conducive Desiderata | |
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| The Problem of Generality | |
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| Belief-Forming Processes | |
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| Belief-Forming Mechanisms as Psychologically Realized Functions | |
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| The Problem of Generality Solved | |
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| Identity of Adequacy of Ground and Reliability of Process | |
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| Objections and Complications | |
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| Some More Serious Complications | |
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| Proper Functioning of Cognitive Faculties | |
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| Intellectual Virtues: Sosa and Goldman | |
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| Intellectual Virtues: Zagzebski | |
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| Conclusion on Intellectual Virtue | |
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| Additional Epistemic Desiderata | |
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| Group III Desiderata | |
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| Group V Desiderata | |
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| Where Particular Desiderata Are of Special Importance | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Reliability | |
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| Group III Desiderata | |
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| Deontological Desiderata | |
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| General Philosophical Assessment of Beliefs | |
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| Assessment of Perceptual Beliefs: Preliminaries | |
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| The Nature of Perception | |
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| The Truth Conducivity of Grounds of Perceptual Beliefs | |
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| Ultimate Questions: The Epistemology of Epistemology | |
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| Critical Questions About Epistemological Methodology | |
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| The Demand for a Final Settlement | |
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| The Inevitability of a Regress | |
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| Attempts to Avoid the Regress: Doxastic Practices | |
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| Epistemic Circularity | |
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| Avoiding Epistemic Circularity | |
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| The Pervasiveness of Epistemic Circularity | |
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| Skepticism | |
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| Types of Skepticism | |
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| Disarming the Pyrrhonian Skeptic | |
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| Humean Skepticism | |
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| Skepticism Concerning Various Epistemic Desiderata | |
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| The Epistemic Desiderata Approach and the Overall Epistemic Organization of Belief | |
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| Types of Foundationalism | |
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| Coherentism and Contextualism | |
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| Does the Epistemic Desiderata Approach Make a Difference? | |
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| Are We Committed to Contextualism? | |
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| Envoi | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |