Arguing about Knowledge

What is knowledge? What are the sources of knowledge? What is the value of knowledge? What can we know? Arguing About Knowledgeoffers a fresh and engaging perspective on the theory of knowledge. This comprehensive and imaginative selection of readings examines the subject in an unorthodox and entertaining manner whilst covering the fundamentals of the theory of knowledge. It includes classic and contemporary pieces from the most influential philosophers from Descartes, Russell, Quine and G.E. Moore to Richard Feldman, Edward Craig, Gilbert Harman and Roderick Chisholm. In addition, students will find fascinating alternative pieces from literary and popular work such as Lewis Caroll, Jorges Luis Borges and Paul Boghossian. Each article selected is clear, interesting and free from unnecessary jargon. The editors provide lucid introductions to each section in which they give an overview of the debate and outline the arguments of the papers. Arguing About Knowledgeis an inventive and stimulating reader for students new to the theory of knowledge.

Ackowledgements	p. x
General Introduction	p. 1
What is knowledge?	p. 3
Introduction to Part One	p. 5
The Right to be Sure	p. 11
Is Justified True Belief Knowledge?	p. 14
Knowledge, Truth and Evidence	p. 16
Knowledge and What We Would Believe	p. 22
What is the value of knowledge?	p. 29
Introduction to Part Two	p. 31
The Meno	p. 35
The Value of Knowledge Is External To It	p. 37
The Search for the Source of Epistemic Good	p. 55
The Value Problem	p. 67
What evidence do we have?	p. 75
Introduction to Part Three	p. 77
"Appear," "Take," and "Evident"	p. 83
Ultimate Evidence	p. 90
Posits and Reality	p. 96
Having Evidence	p. 102
How should we distribute our confidence?	p. 119
Introduction to Part Four	p. 121
Confidence and Probability	p. 127
Self-Locating Belief and the Sleeping Beauty Problem	p. 142
Getting the Goat	p. 146
What is it to be justified in believing something?	p. 149
Introduction to Part Five	p. 151
Reliabilism: What Is Justified Belief?	p. 157
Evidentialism	p. 174
An Internalist Externalism	p. 192
What the Tortoise Said to Achilles	p. 205
What is the structure of justification and knowledge?	p. 209
Introduction to Part Six	p. 211
Can Empirical Knowledge Have a Foundation?	p. 217
Toward a Defense of Empirical Foundationalism	p. 233
Human Knowledge and the Infinite Regress of Reasons	p. 249
The Raft and the Pyramid: Coherence Versus Foundations in the Theory of Knowledge	p. 273
What is the nature of the epistemic 'ought'?	p. 293
Introduction to Part Seven	p. 295
The Ethics of Belief	p. 301
The Will to Believe	p. 306
Epistemic Terms	p. 315
The Deontological Conception of Epistemic Justification	p. 324
Epistemic Justification and Normativity	p. 351
A Contractarian Conception of Knowledge	p. 361
What are the sources of knowledge?	p. 373
Introduction to Part Eight	p. 375
On Induction	p. 381
The Place of Testimony in the Fabric of Knowledge and Justification	p. 386
The A Priori	p. 402
Perceptual Knowledge	p. 412
What can we know?	p. 429
Introduction to Part Nine	p. 431
The Circular Ruins	p. 437
The Problem of the Criterion	p. 441
Meditation One	p. 451
Descartes' Evil Genius	p. 455
Certainty	p. 462
An Argument for Skepticism	p. 466
Elusive Knowledge	p. 479
Is knowledge in the eye of the beholder?	p. 497
Introduction to Part Ten	p. 499
Right You Are (if You Think You Are)	p. 503
Understanding a Primitive Society	p. 530
What the Sokal Hoax Ought to Teach Us: The Pernicious Consequences and Internal Contradictions of 'Postmodernist' Relativism	p. 553
Why (Wittgensteinian) Contextualism is Not Relativism	p. 561
Index	p. 579
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