Blackwell Philosophy Guides #1: The Blackwell Guide to Epistemology
by John (edt) Greco
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About This Book
ISBN13: 9780631202912 |
Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis:
Written by an international assembly of leading philosophers, this volume includes 17 newly-commissioned full-length survey articles on the central topics of epistemology.
Each essay in the volume incorporates background material serving to clarify the history and logic of the relevant topic; as well as new material by a leading author in the field. Accordingly, the volume will be a valuable resource for a broad range of scholars and students, from beginners to experts in epistemology.
Synopsis:
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.
Synopsis:
Written by an international assembly of leading philosophers, this volume includes seventeen newly-commissioned full-length survey articles on the central topics of epistemology.Topics include: Skepticism, Realism, Contextualism, Moral Epistemology, Religious Epistemology, Internalism and Externalism, Naturalized Epistemology, Rationality, Foundationalism and Coherentism, Feminist Epistemology, Post-Modernism and Epistemology on the Continent, and Social Epistemology.Each essay in the volume incorporates background material serving to clarify the history and logic of the relevant topic; as well as new material by a leading author in the field. Accordingly, the volume will be a valuable resource for a broad range of scholars and students, including experts in epistemology.
Table of Contents
- Skepticism /Michael Williams
- Realism, objectivity, and skepticism /Paul K. Moser
- What is knowledge? /Linda Zagzebski
- Dialectic of foundationalism and coherentism /Laurence BonJour
- Skepticism and the internal/external divide /Ernest Sosa
- In defense of a naturalized epistemology /Hilary Kornblith
- Methodological naturalism in epistemology /Richard Feldman
- Contextualism : an explanation and defense /Keith DeRose
- Rationality /Keith Lehrer
- Perceptual knowledge /William Alston
- A priori /George Bealer
- Moral knowledge and ethical pluralism /Robert Audi
- Epistemology of religion /Nicholas Wolterstorff
- Feminist epistemology /Helen E. Longino
- Social epistemology /Frederick Schmitt
- Procedural epistemology-- at the interface of philosophy and AI /John L. Pollock
- Hermeneutics as epistemology /Merold Westphal.
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Product Details
- ISBN:
- 9780631202912
- Editor:
- Greco, John
- Author:
- Author:
- Author:
- Editor:
- Greco, John
- Author:
- Publisher:
- Wiley-Blackwell
- Location:
- Malden, Mass. :
- Subject:
- Epistemology
- Subject:
- Knowledge, theory of
- Copyright:
- 1998
- Series:
- Blackwell Philosophy Guides
- Series Volume:
- 1
- Publication Date:
- January 1998
- Binding:
- Paperback
- Language:
- English
- Illustrations:
- Yes
- Pages:
- 464
- Dimensions:
- 9.64x6.76x1.11 in. 1.83 lbs.










