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The Theory of Knowledge: Classical and Contemporary Readings

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The Theory of Knowledge: Classical and Contemporary Readings

by: POJMAN

ISBN 13:
9780534541309
ISBN 10:
0534541305
Edition: 2nd
Format: Paperback
Copyright: 06/09/1998
Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing
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This is the most up-to-date and comprehensive reader in epistimology on the market. Containing 67 readings, the book is now organized into eleven parts which outline the subjects central to contemporary epistemology. Opposing positions are set forth for all issues and a brief synopsis introduces each reading.

Preface

Part I The Theory of Knowledge

(36)

Plato

1 The Ascent to Knowledge

(10)

Plato

2 Innate Ideas

(6)

Bertrand Russell

3 What Can We Know? Appearance and Reality

(4)

Roderick Chisholm

4 The Problem of the Criterion

(11)

Part II Skepticism

(38)

Rene Descartes

1 First Meditation

(3)

David Hume

2 Skepticism Regarding the Senses

(9)

G.E. Moore

3 A Defense of Common Sense

(8)

Keith Lehrer

4 Why Not Skepticism?

(7)

Norman Malcolm

5 Two Types of Knowledge

(8)

Part III Perception: Our Knowledge of the External World

(62)

John Locke

1 A Representational Theory of Perception

(13)

George Berkeley

2 An Idealist Theory of Knowledge

(8)

W.T. Stace

3 Science and the Physical World: A Defense of Phenomenalism

100

(4)

C.H. Whiteley

4 Phenomenalism: Its Grounds and Difficulties

104

(8)

Bertrand Russell

5 A Defense of Representationalism

112

(4)

John R. Searle

6 The Intentionality of Perception

116

(14)

Charles Landesman

7 Why Nothing Has Color: Color Skepticism

130

(7)

Part IV The Analysis of Knowledge

137

(48)

Edmund L. Gettier

1 Is Justified True Belief Knowledge?

142

(2)

Alvin I. Goldman

2 A Causal Theory of Knowledge

144

(9)

Keith Lehrer

Thomas D. Paxson. Jr.

3 Knowledge: Undefeated True Justified Belief

153

(4)

Gilbert Harman

4 Inference to the Best Explanation

157

(12)

Alvin I. Goldman

5 Discrimination and Perceptual Knowledge

169

(12)

Richard Feldman

6 An Alleged Defect in Gettier Counterexamples

181

(4)

Part V Theories of Justification (I): Foundationalism and Coherentism

185

(118)

Rene Descartes

1 Classical Foundationalism

191

(13)

Robert Audi

2 Contemporary Foundationalism

204

(8)

Laurence BonJour

3 A Critique of Foundationalism

212

(12)

Timothy McGrew

4 A Defense of Classical Foundationalism

224

(12)

Jonathan Dancy

5 A Defense of Coherentism

236

(9)

Richard Fumerton

6 A Critique of Coherentism

245

(6)

Ernest Sosa

7 The Raft and the Pyramid: Coherence Versus Foundations in the Theory of Knowledge

251

(15)

Robert Audi

8 Fallibilist Foundationalism and Holistic Coherentism

266

(17)

Susan Haack

9 A Foundherentist Theory of Empirical Justification

283

(10)

David Annis

10 A Contextual Theory of Epistemic Justification

293

(10)

Part VI Theories of Justification (II): Externalism and Internalism

303

(110)

Alvin Goldman

1 Reliabilism: What Is Justified Belief?

306

(14)

Keith Lehrer

2 A Critique of Externalism

320

(13)

W.V. Quine

3 Epistemology Naturalized

333

(10)

Earl Conee

Richard Feldman

4 The Generality Problem for Reliabilism

343

(14)

Alvin Plantinga

5 A Critique of Internalism

357

(16)

Matthias Steup

6 A Defense of Internalism

373

(12)

Hilary Kornblith

7 Naturalistic Epistemology and Its Critics

385

(12)

David Lewis

8 Elusive Knowledge

397

(16)

Part VII A Priori Knowledge

413

(64)

Immanuel Kant

1 A Priori Knowledge

416

(8)

A.J. Ayer

2 The A Priori

424

(7)

A.C. Ewing

3 In Defense of A Priori Knowledge

431

(6)

W.V. Quine

4 Two Dogmas of Empiricism

437

(12)

H.P. Grice

Peter F. Strawson

5 In Defense of a Dogma

449

(6)

Roderick Chisholm

6 Truths of Reason

455

(13)

Saul A. Kripke

7 A Priori Knowledge, Necessity, and Contingency

468

(9)

Part VIII Induction

477

(34)

David Hume

1 The Problem of Induction

480

(6)

Bertrand Russell

2 On Induction

486

(4)

Frederick Will

3 Will the Future Be Like the Past?

490

(7)

Hans Reichenbach

4 The Pragmatic Justification of Induction

497

(5)

Peter F. Strawson

5 Dissolving the Problem of Induction

502

(4)

Nelson Goodman

6 The New Riddle of Induction

506

(5)

Part IX Other Minds

511

(32)

Bertrand Russell

1 The Analogy Argument for Other Minds

514

(2)

H.H. Price

2 The Argument from Language Understanding

516

(11)

Norman Malcolm

3 The Behavioral Criterion and the Problem of Other Minds

527

(6)

Michael Levin

4 Why We Believe in Other Minds

533

(10)

Part X The Ethics of Belief

543

(50)

John Locke

1 Of Enthusiasm

546

(5)

W.K. Clifford

2 The Ethics of Belief

551

(4)

William James

3 The Will to Believe

555

(8)

Jack Meiland

4 What Ought We to Believe?

563

(10)

Louis Pojman

5 Belief, Will and the Ethics of Belief

573

(20)

Part XI Challenges and Alternatives to Contemporary Epistemology

593

Lorraine Code

1 Is the Sex of the Knower Epistemologically Significant?

595

(12)

Helen E. Longino

2 Feminist Epistemology as a Local Epistemology

607

(9)

Susan Haack

3 Knowledge and Propaganda: Reflections of an Old Feminist

616

(8)

Richard Rorty

4 Dismantling Truth: Solidarity versus Objectivity

624

(7)

Margarita Rosa Levin

5 A Defense of Objectivity

631

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