Dancy / Sosa / Steup A Companion to Epistemology

2. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-1-4443-1509-7
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, 832 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Blackwell Companions to Philosophy

With nearly 300 entries on key concepts, review essays on centralissues, and self-profiles by leading scholars, this companion isthe most comprehensive and up-to-date single volume reference guideto epistemology.
* Epistemology from A-Z is comprised of 296 articles onimportant epistemological concepts that have been extensivelyrevised to bring the volume up-to-date, with many new andre-written entries reflecting developments in the field
* Includes 20 new self-profiles by leadingepistemologists
* Contains 10 new review essays on central issues ofepistemology

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dancy, Jonathan

Sosa, Ernest

Steup, Matthias

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Contributors xiii
Preface to the First Edition xix
Preface to the Second Edition xxiii
Part I Ten Review Essays 1
Skepticism and Closure Anthony Brueckner 3
Contextualism Richard Feldman 12
Foundations and Coherence Michael Huemer 22
Recent Work on the Internalism-ExternalismControversy Laurence BonJour 33
A Priori Knowledge Albert Casullo 43
The Common Sense Tradition Noah Lemos 53
The Power of Perception Peter Markie 62
Virtue Epistemology John Greco 75
Social Epistemology Alvin Goldman 82
Bayesian Epistemology Alan Hájek and StephanHartmann 93
Part II Twenty Epistemological Self-profiles 107
Robert Audi 109
Laurence BonJour 114
Stewart Cohen 118
Earl Conee and Richard Feldman 123
Fred Dretske 130
Richard Foley 134
Richard Fumerton 139
Alvin I. Goldman 144
Gilbert Harman 152
Peter Klein 156
Hilary Kornblith 163
Keith Lehrer 168
Alvin Plantinga 173
John Pollock 178
Ernest Sosa 185
Barry Stroud 190
Michael Williams 194
Timothy Williamson 199
Crispin Wright 204
Linda Zagzebski 210
Part III Epistemology from A to Z 217

Über Autor(innen)

Jonathan Dancy is Professor of Philosophy at the Universityof Reading and the University of Texas at Austin. He is the authorof Introduction to Contemporary Epistemology(Blackwell, 1985), Berkeley (1987), Moral Reasons(Blackwell, 1992) and Ethics without Principles (2004).
Ernest Sosa is Board of Governors Professor at RutgersUniversity. He is the author of Epistemic Justification:Internalism vs. Externalism, Foundations vs. Virtues (togetherwith Laurence BonJour) in the Wiley-Blackwell series Great Debatesin Philosophy (2003), A Virtue Epistemology; Apt Belief andReflective Knowledge, Volume I (2007), and ReflectiveKnowledge; Apt Belief and Reflective Knowledge, Volume II(2009). His publications also include his replies for the volumeSosa and His Critics (edited by John Greco, 2004) in theWiley-Blackwell series Philosophers and Their Critics, as well asnumerous articles.
Matthias Steup is Professor of Philosophy at PurdueUniversity. He is the author of An Introduction to ContemporaryEpistemology (1996) and many articles in epistemology. Heedited Knowledge, Truth, and Duty: Essays on EpistemicJustification, Responsibility, and Virtue (2001), and he isco-editor with Ernest Sosa of Contemporary Debates inEpistemology (Blackwell, 2005).