New and thoroughly updated, Epistemology: An Anthology continues to represent the most comprehensive and authoritative collection of canonical readings in the theory of knowledge. New and thoroughly updated, Epistemology: An Anthology continues to represent the most comprehensive and authoritative collection of canonical readings in the theory of knowledge. Preface to the Second Edition
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Acknowledgments
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Part I Skepticism
1
Introduction
3
1 The Problem of the External World
7
Barry Stroud
2 Proof of an External World
26
G.E. Moore
3 Four Forms of Scepticism
29
G.E. Moore
4 Certainty
31
G.E. Moore
5 How a Pyrrhonian Skeptic Might Respond to Academic Skepticism
35
Peter Klein
6 Epistemological Realism
51
Michael Williams
Part II The Structure of Knowledge and Justification
73
Introduction
75
7 The Myth of the Given
80
Roderick M. Chisholm
8 Does Empirical Knowledge Have a Foundation?
94
Wilfrid Sellars
9 Epistemic Principles
99
Wilfrid Sellars
10 Can Empirical Knowledge Have a Foundation?
109
Laurence BonJour
11 A Coherence Theory of Truth and Knowledge
124
Donald Davidson
12 A Foundherentist Theory of Empirical Justification
134
Susan Haack
13 The Raft and the Pyramid
145
Ernest Sosa
14 Human Knowledge and the Infinite Regress of Reasons
165
Peter D. Klein
Part III Defining Knowledge
187
Introduction
189
15 Is Justified True Belief Knowledge?
192
Edmund Gettier
16 Thought, Selections
194
Gilbert Harman
17 The Inescapability of Gettier Problems
207
Linda Zagzebski
18 A State of Mind
213
Timothy Williamson
Part IV Epistemic Closure
231
Introduction
233
19 Epistemic Operators
237
Fred Dretske
20 Skepticism, Relevant Alternatives, and !kJ ;losure
247
Gail Stine
21 Knowledge and Skepticism
255
Robert Nozick
22 How to Defeat Opposition to Moore
280
Ernest Sosa
23 Are There Counterexamples to the Closure Principle?
290
Jonathan Vogel
Part V Theories of Epistemic Justification
303
Introduction
305
24 Evidentialism
310
Richard Feldman and Earl Owe
25 Skepticism and Rationality
322
Richard Foley
26 What Is Justified Belief?
333
Alvin I. Goldman
27 Reliabilism Leveled
348
Jonathan Vogel
28 Externalist Theories of Empirical Knowledge
363
Laurence BonJour
29 Internalism Exposed
379
Alvin I. Goldman
30 Externalism and Skepticism
394
Richard Fumerton
31 Internalism Defended
407
Richard Feldman and Earl Conee
Part VI Virtue Epistemology and the Value of Knowledge
423
Introduction
425
32 Warrant: A First Approximation
429
Alvin Plantinga
33 Virtues of the Mind, Selections
442
Linda Zagzebski
34 Virtues and Vices of Virtue Epistemology
454
John Greco
35 Cognitive Responsibility and the Epistemic Virtues
462
Duncan Pritchard
36 The Place of Truth in Epistemology
477
Ernest Sosa
37 Why Should Inquiring Minds Want to Know?: Meno Problems and Epistemological Axiology
492
Jonathan L. Kvanvig
38 True Enough
507
Catherine Z. Elgin
Part VII Naturalized Epistemology and the A Priori
521
Introduction
523
39 Epistemology Naturalized
528
W.V. Quine
40 What Is Naturalized Epistemology?
538
Jaegwo Kim
41 Quine as Feminist: The Radical Import of Naturalized Epistemology
552
Louise M. Antony
42 There is at Least One A Priori Truth
585
Hilary Putnam
43 Revisability, Reliabilism, and A Priori Knowledge
595
Albert Castillo
44 A Priori Knowledge and the Scope of Philosophy
612
George Beater
45 Normativity and Epistemic Intuitions
625
Jonathan M. Weinberg, Shaun Nichols, and Stephen Stich
46 Investigating Knowledge Itself
647
Hilary Kornblith
Part VIII Knowledge and Context
661
Introduction
663
47 Solving the Skeptical Problem
669
Keith DeRose
48 Elusive Knowledge
691
David Lewis
49 Contextualist Solutions to Epistemological Problems: Scepticism, Gettier, and the Lottery
706
Stewart Cohen
50 Knowledge and Practical Interest, Selections
721
Jason Stanley
51 Evidence, Pragmatics, and Justification
742
Jeremy Fand and Matthew McGrath
52 Sensitive Moderate invariantism
760
John Hawthorne
53 The Assessment Sensitivity of Knowledge Attributions
779
John MacFarlane
Part IX Testimony, Memory, and Perception
801
Introduction
803
54 Trust and Rationality
807
Judith Baker
55 Against Gullibility
815
Elizabeth Fricker
56 Content Preservation
836
Tyler Burge
57 Testimonial Knowledge and Transmission
855
Jennifer Lackey
58 The Problem of Memory Knowledge
868
Michael Huemer
59 Criteria, Defeasibility, and Knowledge
876
John McDowell
60 Knowing How to Believe With Justification
892
Steven L. Reynolds
Index
903