Knowledge: Readings in Contemporary Epistemology / Edition 1

by Sven Bernecker, Fred I. Dretske

Overview

In this anthology, distinguished editors Sven Bernecker and Fred Dretske offer the most comprehensive review available of contemporary epistemology. They bring together the most important and influential writings in the field, including selections that cover 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. An accessible introduction to each subject area outlines the problems discussed in the essays that follow so that students can focus on analyzing them.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198752615
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	06/01/2000
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	606
Product dimensions:	9.64(w) x 6.72(h) x 1.24(d)

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

PART I. JUSTIFIED TRUE BELIEFIntroductionThe Gettier Problem1. Knowing as Having the Right to be Sure, A J Ayer2. Is Justified True Belief Knowledge?, Edmund L. Gettier3. An Alleged Defect in Gettier Counter-Examples, Richard FeldmanResponses to Gettier4. A Causal Theory of Knowing, Alvin I Goldman5 Knowledge: Undefeated Justified True Belief, Keith Lehrer, Thomas D Paxson, Jr.6. Conclusive Reasons, Fred I DretskePART II. EXTERNALISM AND INTERNALISMIntroductionExternalism7. The 'Thermometer' View of Knowledge, David M Armstrong8. Discrimination and Perceptual Knowledge, Alvin I Goldman9. Precis of 'Knowledge and the Flow of Information', Fred I DretskeInternalism10. The Indispensability of Internal Justification, Roderick M Chisholm11. The Elements of Coherentism, Laurence BonJour12. The Coherence Theory of Knowledge, Keith LehrerCriticisms and Compromises13. What's Wrong with Reliabilism?, Richard Foley14. Externalist Theories of Empirical Knowledge, Laurence BonJour15. A Rationale for Reliabilism, Kent Bach16. An Internalist Externalism, William P AlstonPART III. FOUNDATIONS AND NORMSIntroductionFoundations17. The Given, H H Price18. The Directly Evident, Roderick M Chisholm19. Does Empirical Knowledge have a Foundation?, Wilfrid SellarsNormativity20. Naturalized Epistemology, W V Quine21. What is Naturalized Epistemology?, Jaegwon KimPART IV. SKEPTICISMIntroductionMotivations22. Understanding Human Knowledge in General, Barry Stroud23. A defence of Skepticism, Peter UngerRelevant Alternatives24. Other Minds, J L Austin25. . Knowledge and Scepticism, Robert Nozick26. Elusive Knowledge, David LewisSemantic Approaches27. Brains in a Vat, Hilary Putnam28. The Epistemology of Belief, Fred I Dretske29. A Coherence Theory of Truth and Knowledge, Donald DavidsonPART V. SOURCES OF KNOWLEDGEIntroductionPerception30. The Causal Theory of Perception, H P Grice31. Perception and its Objects, Peter F StrawsonIntrospection32. Individualism and Self-Knowledge, Tyler Burge33. Content and Self-Knowledge, Paul A. Boghossian34. Externalism and the Attitudinal Component of Self-Knowledge, Sven BerneckerMemory and Testimony35. Remembering, C B Martin and Max Deutscher36. Testimony and Observation, C A J CoadyInduction37. On Induction, Bertrand Russell38. The Pragmatic Justification of Induction, Hans Reichenback39. The New Riddle of Induction, Nelson GoodmanA Priori Knowledge40. A Priori Knowledge, Necessity, and Contingency, Saul A Kripke41. A Priori Knowledge, Philip KitcherIndex