Knowledge in Perspective
Knowledge in Perspective
Selected Essays in Epistemology
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Ever since Plato, philosophers have faced one central question: what is the scope and nature of human knowledge? In this volume the distinguished philosopher Ernest Sosa collects essays on this subject written over a period of twenty-five years. All the major topics of contemporary epistemology are covered: the nature of propositional knowledge; externalism versus internalism; foundationalism versus coherentism; and the problem of the criterion. 'Sosa is one of the most prominent and most important epistemologists on the current American scene.' William P. Alston, Syracuse University
- distinguished philosopher Ernest Sosa collects essays, written over the last 25 years, on 'what is the scope and nature of human knowledge?'
- presentation is lucid and will appeal to anyone concerned with contemporary epistemology
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March 2011Adobe eBook Reader
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Table of Contents
- Sources and acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I. What is Knowledge, And How is it Possible? 1. The analysis of 'knowledge that p'
- 2. How do you know?
- 3. On our knowledge of matters of fact
- 4. Presuppositions of empirical knowledge
- Part II. Theories of Justification:
- 5. Epistemology today: a perspective in retrospect
- 6. Nature unmirrored, epistemology naturalized
- 7. Theories of justification: old doctrines newly defended
- 8. Reliabilism and intellectual virtue
- Part III. Intellectual Virtue and Epistemic Perspective: A View Presented:
- 9. The foundations of foundationalism
- 10. The raft and the pyramid: coherence versus foundations in the theory of knowledge
- 11. The coherence of virtue and the virtue of coherence
- 12. Testimony and coherence
- Part IV. Intellectual Virtue in Perspective: The View Developed:
- 13. Knowledge and intellectual virtue
- 14. Methodology and apt belief
- 15. Equilibrium in coherence?
- 16. Intellectual virtue in perspective
- Index.
