Buch, Englisch, 606 Seiten, Format (B × H): 170 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 1030 g
Readings in Contemporary Epistemology
Buch, Englisch, 606 Seiten, Format (B × H): 170 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 1030 g
ISBN: 978-0-19-875261-5
Verlag: OUP Oxford
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 theory of knowledge. A readable introduction to each subject outlines the problems discussed in the essays that follow so readers can more effectively focus on analysing them. The book is primarily designed for undergraduate courses on theories of knowledge. It will also be of use to university students in other fields as well as interested general readers.
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- PART I. JUSTIFIED TRUE BELIEF
- Introduction
- The Gettier Problem
- 1: A J Ayer: Knowing as Having the Right to be Sure
- 2: Edmund L. Gettier: Is Justified True Belief Knowledge?
- 3: Richard Feldman: An Alleged Defect in Gettier Counter-Examples
- Responses to Gettier
- 4: Alvin I Goldman: A Causal Theory of Knowing
- 5: Keith Lehrer, Thomas D Paxson, Jr.: Knowledge: Undefeated Justified True Belief
- 6: Fred I Dretske: Conclusive Reasons
- PART II. EXTERNALISM AND INTERNALISM
- Introduction
- Externalism
- 7: David M Armstrong: The 'Thermometer' View of Knowledge
- 8: Alvin I Goldman: Discrimination and Perceptual Knowledge
- 9: Fred I Dretske: Precis of 'Knowledge and the Flow of Information'
- Internalism
- 10: Roderick M Chisholm: The Indispensability of Internal Justification
- 11: Laurence BonJour: The Elements of Coherentism
- 12: Keith Lehrer: The Coherence Theory of Knowledge
- Criticisms and Compromises
- 13: Richard Foley: What's Wrong with Reliabilism?
- 14: Laurence BonJour: Externalist Theories of Empirical Knowledge
- 15: Kent Bach: A Rationale for Reliabilism
- 16: William P Alston: An Internalist Externalism
- PART III. FOUNDATIONS AND NORMS
- Introduction
- Foundations
- 17: H H Price: The Given
- 18: Roderick M Chisholm: The Directly Evident
- 19: Wilfrid Sellars: Does Empirical Knowledge have a Foundation?
- Normativity
- 20: W V Quine: Naturalized Epistemology
- 21: Jaegwon Kim: What is Naturalized Epistemology?
- PART IV. SKEPTICISM
- Introduction
- Motivations
- 22: Barry Stroud: Understanding Human Knowledge in General
- 23: Peter Unger: A defence of Skepticism
- Relevant Alternatives
- 24: J L Austin: Other Minds
- 25: Robert Nozick:. Knowledge and Scepticism
- 26: David Lewis: Elusive Knowledge
- Semantic Approaches
- 27: Hilary Putnam: Brains in a Vat
- 28: Fred I Dretske: The Epistemology of Belief
- 29: Donald Davidson: A Coherence Theory of Truth and Knowledge
- PART V. SOURCES OF KNOWLEDGE
- Introduction
- Perception
- 30: H P Grice: The Causal Theory of Perception
- 31: Peter F Strawson: Perception and its Objects
- Introspection
- 32: Tyler Burge: Individualism and Self-Knowledge
- 33: Paul A. Boghossian: Content and Self-Knowledge
- 34: Sven Bernecker: Externalism and the Attitudinal Component of Self-Knowledge
- Memory and Testimony
- 35: C B Martin and Max Deutscher: Remembering
- 36: C A J Coady: Testimony and Observation
- Induction
- 37: Bertrand Russell: On Induction
- 38: Hans Reichenback: The Pragmatic Justification of Induction
- 39: Nelson Goodman: The New Riddle of Induction
- A Priori Knowledge
- 40: Saul A Kripke: A Priori Knowledge, Necessity, and Contingency
- 41: Philip Kitcher: A Priori Knowledge
- Index
