The Blackwell Guide to Epistemology

Buch | Softcover

480 Seiten

1998
Wiley-Blackwell (Verlag)
978-0-631-20291-2 (ISBN)

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This volume includes seventeen articles on the central topics of epistemology, including scepticism, realism, rationality, moral epistemology and social epistemology. Each essay incorporates background material to clarify the history and logic of the topic. In the BLACKWELL COMPANIONS TO PHILOSOPHY series.

John Greco is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Fordham University. His essays on epistemology, moral theory, and philosophy of religion have appeared in such journals as American Philosophical Quarterly, American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly, Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Metaphilosophy, and Philosophy and Phenomenological Research. Ernest Sosa is Romeo Elton Professor of Natural Theology at Brown University. He is co-editor (with Jonathan Dancy) of the Companion to Epistemology (Blackwell 1993), the Companion to Metaphysics (with Jaegwon Kim, Blackwell 1994), Metaphysics: an Anthology (with Jaegwon Kim, Blackwell 1998), and Epistemology: an Anthology (with Jaegwon Kim, Blackwell 1999). He is series editor of Great Debates in Philosophy (Blackwell) and is author of Knowledge in Perspective (1993).

Contributors vii

Preface viii

Introduction: What is Epistemology? John Greco 1

Part I Traditional Problems Of Epistemology 33

1 Skepticism Michael Williams 35

2 Realism, Objectivity, and Skepticism Paul K. Moser 70

3 What is Knowledge? Linda Zagzebski 92

4 The Dialectic of Foundationalism and Coherentism Laurence BonJour 117

Part II The Nature Of Epistemic Evaluation 143

5 Skepticism and the Internal/External Divide Ernest Sosa 145

6 In Defense of a Naturalized Epistemology Hilary Kornblith 158

7 Methodological Naturalism in Epistemology Richard Feldman 170

8 Contextualism: An Explanation and Defense Keith DeRose 187

9 Rationality Keith Lehrer 206

Part III Varieties Of Knowledge 221

10 Perceptual Knowledge William Alston 223

11 The A Priori George Bealer 243

12 Moral Knowledge and Ethical Pluralism Robert Audi 271

13 Epistemology of Religion Nicholas Wolterstorff 303

Part IV New Directions 325

14 Feminist Epistemology Helen E. Longino 327

15 Social Epistemology Frederick Schmitt 354

16 Procedural Epistemology – At the Interface of Philosophy and AI John L. Pollock 383

17 Hermeneutics as Epistemology Merold Westphal 415

Select Bibliography of Epistemology by Topic 436

Index 451

Erscheint lt. Verlag	29.11.1998
Reihe/Serie	Blackwell Philosophy Guides
Verlagsort	Hoboken
Sprache	englisch
Maße	174 x 249 mm
Gewicht	826 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Erkenntnistheorie / Wissenschaftstheorie
ISBN-10	0-631-20291-9 / 0631202919
ISBN-13	978-0-631-20291-2 / 9780631202912
Zustand	Neuware