Epistemology Contemporary Readings 1st Edition by Michael Huemer ISBN 9780415259217 0415259217
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ISBN 10: 0415259217
ISBN 13: 9780415259217
Author: Michael Huemer
This comprehensive anthology draws together classic and contemporary readings by leading philosophers on epistemology. Ideal for any philosophy student, it will prove essential reading for epistemology courses, and is designed to complement Robert Audi’s textbook Epistemology: A Contemporary Introduction (Routledge, 1998).
Themes covered include, perception, memory, inductive inference, reason and the a priori, the architecture of knowledge, skepticism, the analysis of knowledge, testimony. Each section begins with an introductory essay, guiding students into the topic.
Includes articles by:
Russell, Hume, Berkeley, Malcolm, Quine, Carnap, J.L. Austin, Pollock, Nozick, Putnam, G.E. Moore, Huemer, Reid, Plato, BonJour, Coady, Carroll, Fumerton, Edwards, Foster, Howson, Urbach, Stove, Empiricus, Oakley, Alston, Gettier, Clark, Goldman, Lehrer, Paxson, DeRose, Dretske, Klein and Chisholm
Table of contents:
PART I: SOURCES OF JUSTIFICATION AND KNOWLEDGE
1 PERCEPTION
John Locke, Essay Concerning Human Understanding George Berkeley, Of The Principles of Human Knowledge David Hume, “Of the Academical or Sceptical Philosophy” Thomas Reid, Essays on the Intellectual Powers of Man Bertrand Russell, The Problems of Philosophy
J.L. Austin, Sense and Sensibility
2 MEMORY
Bertrand Russell, “Memory” Norman Malcolm, “A Definition of Factual Memory”
John Pollock and Joseph Cruz, “Reasoning and Memory” Michael Huemer, “The Problem of Memory Knowledge”
3 REASON AND THE A PRIORI
Plato, Meno
Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason Bertrand Russell, The Problems of Philosophy A.J. Ayer, “The Elimination of Metaphysics” W.V. Quine, “Two Dogmas of Empiricism” Rudolf Carnap, Philosophical Foundations of Physics Laurence BonJour, “Appendix: Non-Euclidean Geometry and Relativity”
4 TESTIMONY
John Locke, Essay Concerning Human Understanding David Hume, “Of Miracles” Thomas Reid, Inquiry into the Human Mind C.A.J. Coady, “Testimony and Observation”
PART II: THE STRUCTURE AND GROWTH OF JUSTIFICATION AND KNOWLEDGE
5 INFERENCE IN GENERAL
Lewis Carroll, “What the Tortoise said to Achilles”
Richard Fumerton, “Inferential Justification and Empiricism”
David Hume, “Of Scepticism with Regard to Reason”
Hilary Kornblith, “Distrusting Reason”
6 INDUCTIVE INFERENCE
David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding Paul Edwards, “Russell’s Doubts about Induction” Bayesian Approach
Nelson Goodman, “The New Riddle of Induction” John Foster, “Induction, Explanation and Natural Necessity” Colin Howson and Peter Urbach, Scientific Reasoning: The
David Stove, “Another Attempt to Prove that Induction is Justified: The Law of Large Numbers”
7 THE ARCHITECTURE OF KNOWLEDGE
Sextus Empiricus, “The Five Modes”
I.T. Oakley, “An Argument for Scepticism Concerning Justified Beliefs”
Laurence BonJour, The Structure of Empirical Knowledge
William Alston, “Has Foundationalism Been Refuted?”
Susan Haack, “A Foundherentist Theory of Empirical Justification”
PART III: THE NATURE AND SCOPE OF JUSTIFICATION AND KNOWLEDGE
8 THE ANALYSIS OF “KNOWLEDGE”
A.J. Ayer, “Knowing as Having the Right to be Sure”
Edmund Gettier, “Is Justified True Belief Knowledge?”
Michael Clark, “Knowledge and Grounds: A Comment on Mr. Gettier’s Paper”
Alvin Goldman, “A Causal Theory of Knowing”
Keith Lehrer and Thomas Paxson, “Knowledge: Undefeated Justified True Belief”
Robert Nozick, “Knowledge”
Keith DeRose, “Contextualism and Knowledge Attributions”
9 SKEPTICISM
René Descartes, Meditations on First Philosophy
Hilary Putnam, “Brains in a Vat” Fred Dretske, “The Pragmatic Dimension of Knowledge”
Peter Klein, “Skepticism and Closure: Why the Evil Genius Argument Fails” Michael Huemer, “Direct Realism and the Brain-in-a-Vat Argument” Roderick Chisholm, “The Problem of the Criterion”
G.E. Moore, “Proof of an External World” G.E. Moore, “Hume’s Theory Examined”
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