A Companion to Epistemology

ISBN-13: 9781405139007 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 832 str.

Opis

With nearly 300 entries on key concepts, review essays on central issues, and self-profiles by leading scholars, this companion is the most comprehensive and up-to-date single volume reference guide to epistemology.

• Epistemology from A-Z is comprised of 296 articles on important epistemological concepts that have been extensively revised to bring the volume up-to-date, with many new and re-written entries reflecting developments in the field
• Includes 20 new self-profiles by leading epistemologists
• Contains 10 new review essays on central issues of epistemology

Recenzje

"Recommended. Libraries supporting lower–level undergraduates through graduate students". (Choice, October 2010)

Spis treści

List of Contributors xiii

Preface to the First Edition xix

Preface to the Second Edition xxiii

Part I Ten Review Essays 1

Skepticism and Closure Anthony Brueckner 3

Contextualism Richard Feldman 12

Foundations and Coherence Michael Huemer 22

Recent Work on the Internalism Externalism Controversy Laurence BonJour 33

A Priori Knowledge Albert Casullo 43

The Common Sense Tradition Noah Lemos 53

The Power of Perception Peter Markie 62

Virtue Epistemology John Greco 75

Social Epistemology Alvin Goldman 82

Bayesian Epistemology Alan Hájek and Stephan Hartmann 93

Part II Twenty Epistemological Self–profiles 107

Robert Audi 109

Laurence BonJour 114

Stewart Cohen 118

Earl Conee and Richard Feldman 123

Fred Dretske 130

Richard Foley 134

Richard Fumerton 139

Alvin I. Goldman 144

Gilbert Harman 152

Peter Klein 156

Hilary Kornblith 163

Keith Lehrer 168

Alvin Plantinga 173

John Pollock 178

Ernest Sosa 185

Barry Stroud 190

Michael Williams 194

Timothy Williamson 199

Crispin Wright 204

Linda Zagzebski 210

Part III Epistemology from A to Z 217

O autorze

Jonathan Dancy is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Reading and the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of Introduction to Contemporary Epistemology (Blackwell, 1985), Berkeley (1987), Moral Reasons (Blackwell, 1992) and Ethics without Principles (2004).

Ernest Sosa is Board of Governors Professor at Rutgers University. He is the author of Epistemic Justification: Internalism vs. Externalism, Foundations vs. Virtues (together with Laurence BonJour) in the Wiley–Blackwell series Great Debates in Philosophy (2003), A Virtue Epistemology; Apt Belief and Reflective Knowledge, Volume I (2007), and Reflective Knowledge; Apt Belief and Reflective Knowledge, Volume II (2009). His publications also include his replies for the volume Sosa and His Critics (edited by John Greco, 2004) in the Wiley–Blackwell series Philosophers and Their Critics, as well as numerous articles.

Matthias Steup is Professor of Philosophy at Purdue University. He is the author of An Introduction to Contemporary Epistemology (1996) and many articles in epistemology.  He edited Knowledge, Truth, and Duty: Essays on Epistemic Justification, Responsibility, and Virtue (2001), and he is co–editor with Ernest Sosa of Contemporary Debates in Epistemology (Blackwell, 2005).   

Blurb

Since its first publication, A Companion to Epistemology has established itself as the leading single–volume epistemology reference work in the field. This extended and revised edition brings the companion up to date. Part I, consisting of newly commissioned review essays, focuses on the major topics that have an abiding centrality for the field, including a priori justification, Bayesian epistemology, closure, contextualism, epistemic virtue, internalism vs. externalism, foundationalism vs. coherentism, perception, scepticism, and social epistemology. Part II brings together twenty self–portraits of leading epistemologists who are widely recognized and respected for their contributions to the field, including Fred Dretske, Alvin Goldman, Gilbert Harman, Alvin Plantinga, John Pollock, Timothy Williamson, and Linda Zagzebski. The content of the first edition is retained in Part III: Epistemology from A Z. This section of nearly 300 entries has been extensively revised, with many new and rewritten entries reflecting recent developments in the field.

Written by leading experts, the entries in this comprehensive volume combine to form a complete and up–to–date reference guide for students and professionals alike.