Blackwell Philosophy Guides: The Blackwell Guide to Epistemology

Editor/Author Greco, John and Sosa, Ernest
Publication Year: 1998
Publisher: Wiley

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ISBN: 978-0-631-20291-2
Category: Philosophy
Book Status: Available
Table of Contents

Written by an international assembly of leading philosophers, this volume includes seventeen newly-commissioned full-length survey articles on the central topics of epistemology.

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Table of Contents

  • Contributors
  • Preface
  • Introduction: What is Epistemology?
  • PART I TRADITIONAL PROBLEMS OF EPISTEMOLOGY
  • 1 Skepticism
  • 2 Realism, Objectivity, and Skepticism
  • 3 What is Knowledge?
  • 4 The Dialectic of Foundationalism and Coherentism
  • PART II THE NATURE OF EPISTEMIC EVALUATION
  • 5 Skepticism and the Internal/External Divide
  • 6 In Defense of a Naturalized Epistemology
  • 7 Methodological Naturalism in Epistemology
  • 8 Contextualism: An Explanation and Defense
  • 9 Rationality
  • PART III VARIETIES OF KNOWLEDGE
  • 10 Perceptual Knowledge
  • 11 The A Priori
  • 12 Moral Knowledge and Ethical Pluralism
  • 13 Epistemology of Religion
  • PART IV NEW DIRECTIONS
  • 14 Feminist Epistemology
  • 15 Social Epistemology
  • 16 Procedural Epistemology — At the Interface of Philosophy and AI
  • 17 Hermeneutics as Epistemology
  • Select Bibliography of Epistemology by Topic