Knowledge Readings in Contemporary

In this anthology, distinguished editors Fred Dretske and Sven Bernecker offer the most comprehensive review available of contemporary epistemology. They bring together the most important and influential writings in the field, including frequently neglected topics such as dominant responses to skepticism, introspection, memory, and testimony. Knowledge is divided into fifteen subject areas and includes forty-one readings by eminent contributors.

Sven Bernecker is Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Munich.
Fred Dretske is Bella and Eloise Knapp Professor in the Humanities, Emeritus, at Stanford University and Senior Research Scholar at Duke University.

Part I Justified True Belief

Introduction

3

(4)

The Gettier Problem

Knowing as having the right to be sure

7

(6)

A. J. Ayer

Is justified true belief knowledge?

13

(3)

Edmund L. Gettier

An alleged defect in Gettier counter-examples

16

(2)

Richard Feldman

Responses to Gettier

A causal theory of knowing

18

(13)

Alvin I. Goldman

Knowledge: undefeated justified true belief

31

(11)

Keith Lehrer

Thomas D. Paxson, Jr.

Conclusive reasons

42

(30)

Fred Dretske

Part II Externalism and Internalism

Introduction

65

(7)

Externalism

The thermometer-model of knowledge

72

(14)

David M. Armstrong

Discrimination and perceptual knowledge

86

(17)

Alvin I. Goldman

Precis of Knowledge and the Flow of Information

103

(15)

Fred Dretske

Internalism

The indispensability of internal justification

118

(10)

Roderick M. Chisholm

The elements of coherentism

128

(21)

Laurence BonJour

The coherence theory of knowledge

149

(17)

Keith Lehrer

Criticisms and Compromises

What's wrong with reliabilism?

166

(12)

Richard Foley

Externalist theories of empirical knowledge

178

(21)

Laurence BonJour

A rationale for reliabilism

199

(15)

Kent Bach

An internalist externalism

214

(21)

William P. Alston

Part III Foundations and Norms

Introduction

231

(4)

Foundations

The given

235

(10)

H. H. Price

The directly evident

245

(15)

Roderick M. Chisholm

Does empirical knowledge have a foundation?

260

(6)

Wilfrid Sellars

Normativity

Epistemology naturalized

266

(13)

W. V. Quine

What is `naturalized epistemology'?

279

(28)

Jaegwon Kim

Part IV Scepticism

Introduction

301

(6)

Motivations

Understanding human knowledge in general

307

(17)

Barry Stroud

A defense of skepticism

324

(15)

Peter Unger

Relevant Alternatives

Other minds

339

(8)

J. L. Austin

Knowledge and scepticism

347

(19)

Robert Nozick

Elusive knowledge

366

(19)

David Lewis

Semantic Approaches

Brains in a vat

385

(15)

Hilary Putnam

The epistemology of belief

400

(13)

Fred Dretske

A coherence theory of truth and knowledge

413

(29)

Donald Davidson

Part V Sources of Knowledge

Introduction

431

(11)

Perception

The causal theory of perception

442

(10)

H. P. Grice

Perception and its objects

452

(16)

Peter F. Strawson

Introspection

Individualism and self-knowledge

468

(12)

Tyler Burge

Content and self-knowledge

480

(19)

Paul A. Boghossian

Externalism and the attitudinal component of self-knowledge

499

(13)

Sven Bernecker

Memory and Testimony

Remembering

512

(25)

C. B. Martin

Max Deutscher

Testimony and observation

537

(10)

C. A. J. Coady

Induction

On induction

547

(5)

Bertrand Russell

The pragmatic justification of induction

552

(4)

Hans Reichenbach

The new riddle of induction

556

(6)

Nelson Goodman

Priori Knowledge

A priori knowledge, necessity, and contingency

562

(12)

Saul A. Kripke

A priori knowledge

574

(15)

Philip Kitcher

Notes on the Contributors

589

(3)

Index of Names

592

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Knowledge Readings in Contemporary Epistemology

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