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

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