Epistemology An Anthology

The simplest questions are never so simple. "What is knowledge?" has been pondered for millennia-and continues to engage the most brilliant philosophical minds. With all central topics in the field included-skepticism, the Pyrrhonian problematic, the structure of epistemic justification, and many more-Epistemology: An Anthology continues to represent the most comprehensive and authoritative collection of canonical readings in the theory of knowledge. In addition to including all-new sections on Testimony, Memory, and Perception; and the Value of Knowledge, the editors have updated the selections on the Structure of Knowledge and Justification, the Non-Epistemic in Epistemology, and the Nature of the Epistemic from the first edition. Striking an excellent balance between traditional theories and cutting edge contemporary methodologies, Epistemology: An Anthology is an essential compendium for all philosophers concerned with the latest developments in the theory of knowledge.

Ernest Sosa is Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University. He is the author of Knowledge in Perspective (1991) and A Virtue Epistemology (2007), and co-editor (with John Greco) of The Blackwell Guide to Epistemology (1999) and other texts.

Jaegwon Kim has taught at Cornell University, Johns Hopkins University, and the University of Michigan. He is currently the William Perry Faunce Professor of Philosophy at Brown University. He has authored and edited several philosophical texts, including Supervenience and the Mind (1993) and Physicalism, or Something Near Enough (2005).

Jeremy Fantl is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Calgary. He and Matthew McGrath are writing a book entitled Pragmatic Encroachment in Epistemology.

Matthew McGrath is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Missouri-Columbia. He is the author of Between Deflationism and the Correspondence Theory (2000) and is co-authoring Pragmatic Encroachment in Epistemology with Jeremy Fantl.

Preface to the Second Edition Acknowledgments
Skepticism: Introduction
The Problem of the External World
Proof of an External World
Four Forms of Scepticism
Certainty
How a Pyrrhonian Skeptic Might Respond to Academic Skepticism
Epistemological Realism
The Structure of Knowledge and Justification: Introduction
The Myth of the Given
Does Empirical Knowledge Have a Foundation?
Epistemic Principles
Can Empirical Knowledge Have a Foundation?
A Coherence Theory of Truth and Knowledge
A Foundherentist Theory of Empirical Justification
The Raft and the Pyramid
Human Knowledge and the Infinite Regress of Reasons
Defining Knowledge: Introduction
Is Justified True Belief Knowledge?
Thought, Selections
The Inescapability of Gettier Problems
A State of Mind
Epistemic Closure: Introduction
Epistemic Operators
Relevant Alternatives and Deductive Closure
Knowledge and Skepticism
How to Defeat Opposition to Moore
Are There Counterexamples to the Closure Principle?
Theories of Epistemic Justification: Introduction
Evidentialism
Skepticism and Rationality
What is Justified Belief?
Reliabilism Leveled
Externalist Theories of Justification
Internalism Exposed
Externalism and Skepticism
Internalism Defended
Virtue Epistemology and the Value of Knowledge: Introduction
Warrant: A First Approximation
Virtues of the Mind, Selections
Virtues and Vices of Virtue Epistemology
Cognitive Responsibility and the Epistemic Virtues
The Place of Truth in Epistemology
Why Should Enquiring Minds Want to Know? Meno Problems and Epistemological Axiology
True Enough
Naturalized Epistemology and the A Priori: Introduction
Epistemology Naturalized
What is "Naturalized Epistemology"?
Quine as Feminist: the Radical Import of Naturalized Epistemology
There is at Least One A Priori Truth
Revisability, Reliabilism, and A Priori Knowledge
A Priori Knowledge and the Scope of Philosophy
Normativity and Epistemic Intuitions
Normativity and Natural Knowledge
Knowledge and the Pragmatic: Introduction
Solving the Skeptical Problem
Elusive Knowledge
Contextualist Solutions to Epistemological Problems: Scepticism, Gettier, and the Lottery
Knowledge and Practical Interest, Selections
Evidence, Pragmatics, and Justification
Sensitive Moderate Invariantism
The Assessment-Sensitivity of Knowledge Attributions
Testimony, Memory, and Perception: Introduction
Trust and Rationality
Against Gullibility
Content Preservation
Testimonial
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