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614 pages |
| Contents |
Part I. General Introduction. The Theory of Knowledge: 1. Bertrand Russell, What Can We Know? Appearances and Reality. 2. Roderick Chisholm, The Problem of the Criterion -- Part II. Skepticism: 1. Rene Descartes, Meditations 1 to 4. 2. David Hume, Skepticism R egarding the Senses. 3. G. E. Moore, A Defense of Common Sense. 4. Keith Lehrer, Why Not Skepticism. 5. Norman Malcolm, Two Types of Knowledge -- Part III. Perception: Our Knowledge of the External World: 1. John Locke, A Representational Theory of Perception. 2. George Berkeley, An Idealist Theory of Knowledge. 3 W. T. Stace, Science and the Physic al World: A Defense of Phenomenalism. 4. H. Whiteley, Phenomenalism: Its Grounds and Difficulties. 5. Thomas Reid, A Defense of Direct Realism. 6. Bertrand Russ ell, A Defense of Representationalism Part IV. Analysis of Knowledge: 1. Edmund Gettier, Is Justified True Belief Knowledge? |
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2. Richard Feldman: An Alleged Defect in Gettier Counterexamples. 3. Alvin Goldman, A Causa l Theory of Knowledge. 4. Keith Lehrer and Tom Paxson, Knowledge: Undefeated Jus tified Belief. 5. Alvin Goldman, Discrimination and Perceptual Knowledge -- Part V. Theories of Justification (I): Foundationalism and Coherentism: 1. Robert Chisolm, Foundationalism. 2. Robert Audi, Contemporary M odest Foundationalism. 3. Laurence Bonjour, A Critique of Foundationalism. 4. Ti mothy McGrew, Ad Defense of Classical Foundationalism (commissioned). 5. Jonatha n Dancy, A Defense of Coherentism. 6. Richard Fumerton, A Critique of Coherentis m (revised-commissioned). 7. Ernest Sosa, The Raft and the Pyramid: Coherence Ve rsus Foundations in the Theory of Knowledge. 8. Susan Haack, A Foundherentist Th eory of Empirical Justification (commissioned). 9. David Annis, A Contextual The ory of Epistemic Justification -- |
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Part VI. Theories of Justification (II): Externalism and Internalism: 1. Alvin Goldman, Reliabilism: What Is Justified Belief? 2. Keith Lehrer, A Critique of Externalism. 3. W. V. Quine, Epistemology Naturalized. 4. Earl Conee and Richard Feldman, The Generality Problem for Reliabilism. 5. Matth ias Steup, A Defense of Internalism (commissioned). 6. Hilary Kornblith, Natural istic Epistemology and its Critics. 7. David Lewis, Elusive Knowledge. 8. John G reco, Foundationalism, Coherentism, and Virtue Epistemology -- Part VII. A Priori Knowledge: 1. Immanel Kant, A Priori Knowledge. 2. A. J. Ayer, An Empiricist Critique of the A Priori. 3. A. C. Ewing, In Defense of A Priori Knowledge. 4. W . V. Quine, Two Dogmas of Empiricism. 5. H. P. Grice and Peter F. Strawson, In D efense of a Dogma. 6. Roderick Chisholm, Truths of Reason. 7. Saul Kripke, A Pri ori Knowledge, Necessity and Contingency -- |
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Part VIII. Induction: 1. David Hume, The Problem of Induction. 2. Bertrand Russell, On I nduction. 3. Frederick Will, Will the Future Be Like the Past? 4. Hans Reichenba ch, The Pragmatic Justification of Induction. 5. Peter F. Strawson, Dissolving t he Problem of Induction. 6. Nelson Goodman, The New Riddle of Induction -- Part IX. Scientific Method, Justification and the Demarcation Problem: 1. A.J. Ayer, The Verification Method and the Elimination of Metap hysics. 2. Karl Hempel, The Scientific Method of Hypothesis Testing. 3. Karl Pop per, Conjectures and Refutations. 4. Imre Lakatos, Science versus Pseudoscience. 5. Paul Feyerabend, Science as Myth -- Part X. The Ethics of Belief: 1. John Locke, Of Enthusiasm. 2. W. K. Clifford, The Ethics of Bel ief. 3. William James, The Will to Believe. 4. Jack Meiland, What Ought We to Be lieve? 5. Louis Pojman, Believing, Willing, and the Ethics of Belief |
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Part XI. Challenges and Alternatives to Traditional Epistemology: 1. Lorraine Code, Is the Sex of the Knower Epistemologically Signi ficant? 2. Helen Longino, Feminist Epistemology As Local Epistemology. 3. Susan Haack, Knowledge and Propoganda: Reflections of an Old Feminist. 4. Richard Rort y, Dismantling Truth: Solidarity versus Objectivity. 5. Margarita Rosa Levin, A Defense of Objectivity: A Critique of Feminist Epistemology and Rortyism (commis sioned). 6. Karl Popper, Knowledge without a Knowing Subject |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographies |
| Subject |
Knowledge, Theory of.
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| LC no. |
2002106308 |
| ISBN |
0534558224 paperback |
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