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Arguing About Knowledge

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Arguing About Knowledge

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Arguing About Knowledge book

Edited ByRam Neta, Duncan Pritchard
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2008
eBook Published 25 July 2020
Pub. Location London
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003061038
Pages 616
eBook ISBN 9781003061038
Subjects Humanities
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Neta, R., & Pritchard, D. (Eds.). (2008). Arguing About Knowledge (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003061038

ABSTRACT

What is knowledge? What are the sources of knowledge? What is the value of knowledge? What can we know? Arguing About Knowledge offers a fresh and engaging perspective on the theory of knowledge. This comprehensive and imaginative selection of readings examines the subject in an unorthodox and entertaining manner whilst covering the fundamentals of the theory of knowledge. It includes classic and contemporary pieces from the most influential philosophers from Descartes, Russell, Quine and G.E. Moore to Richard Feldman, Edward Craig, Gilbert Harman and Roderick Chisholm. In addition, students will find fascinating alternative pieces from literary and popular work such as Lewis Caroll, Jorges Luis Borges and Paul Boghossian.  Each article selected is clear, interesting and free from unnecessary jargon. The editors provide lucid introductions to each section in which they give an overview of the debate and outline the arguments of the papers. Arguing About Knowledge is an inventive and stimulating reader for students new to the theory of knowledge.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter |1 pages

General Introduction

ByRam Neta, Duncan Pritchard

part Part One|25 pages

What is knowledge?

part |23 pages

Introduction to Part One

chapter Chapter 1|3 pages

The Right to Be Sure

ByA. J. Ayer

chapter Chapter 2|2 pages

Is Justified True Belief Knowledge?

ByEdmund Gettier

chapter Chapter 3|6 pages

Knowledge, Truth and Evidence

ByKeith Lehrer

chapter Chapter 4|6 pages

Knowledge and What We Would Believe

ByRobert Nozick

part Part Two|46 pages

What is the value of knowledge?

part |44 pages

Introduction to Part Two

chapter Chapter 5|2 pages

The Meno

ByPlato

chapter Chapter 6|18 pages

The Value of Knowledge is External to It

ByJonathan Kvanvig

chapter Chapter 7|12 pages

The Search for the Source of Epistemic Good

ByLinda Zagzebski

chapter Chapter 8|8 pages

The Value Problem

ByJohn Greco

part Part Three|44 pages

What evidence do we have?

part |42 pages

Introduction to Part Three

chapter Chapter 9|7 pages

"Appear," "Take," and "Evident"

ByRoderick Chisholm

chapter Chapter 10|6 pages

Ultimate Evidence

ByRoderick Firth

chapter Chapter 11|6 pages

Posits and Reality

ByW. V. Quine

chapter Chapter 12|17 pages

Having Evidence

ByRichard Feldman

part Part Four|29 pages

How should we distribute our confidence?

part |27 pages

Introduction to Part Four

chapter Chapter 13|15 pages

Confidence and Probability

ByMark Kaplan

chapter Chapter 14|4 pages

Self-Locating Belief and the Sleeping Beauty Problem

ByAdam Elga

chapter Chapter 15|2 pages

Getting the Goat

ByPaul Hoffman

part Part Five|59 pages

What is it to be justified in believing something?

part |57 pages

Introduction to Part Five

chapter Chapter 16|17 pages

Reliabilism: What is Justified Belief?

ByAlvin Goldman

chapter Chapter 17|18 pages

Evidentialism

ByRichard Feldman, Earl Conee

chapter Chapter 18|13 pages

An Internalist Externalism

ByWilliam Alston

chapter Chapter 19|3 pages

What the Tortoise Said to Achilles

ByLewis Carroll

part Part Six|83 pages

What is the structure of justification and knowledge?

part |81 pages

Introduction to Part Six

chapter Chapter 20|16 pages

Can Empirical Knowledge have a Foundation?

ByLaurence BonJour

chapter Chapter 21|16 pages

Toward a Defense of Empirical Foundationalism

ByLaurence BonJour

chapter Chapter 22|24 pages

Human Knowledge and the Infinite Regress of Reasons*

ByPeter Klein

chapter Chapter 23|19 pages

The Raft and the Pyramid

Coherence versus foundations in the theory of knowledge
ByErnest Sosa

part Part Seven|79 pages

What is the nature of the epistemic ‘ought’?

part |77 pages

Introduction to Part Seven

chapter Chapter 24|5 pages

The Ethics of Belief

ByW.K. Clifford

chapter Chapter 25|9 pages

The Will to Believe

ByWilliam James

chapter Chapter 26|9 pages

Epistemic Terms

ByRoderick Chisholm

chapter Chapter 27|27 pages

The Deontological Conception of Epistemic Justification

ByWilliam Alston

chapter Chapter 28|10 pages

Epistemic Justification and Normativity

ByRichard Fumerton

chapter Chapter 29|11 pages

A Contractarian Conception of Knowledge

ByEdward Craig

part Part Eight|55 pages

What are the sources of knowledge?

part |53 pages

Introduction to Part Eight

chapter Chapter 30|5 pages

On Introduction

ByBertrand Russell

chapter Chapter 31|16 pages

The Place of Testimony in the Fabric of Knowledge and Justification

ByRobert Audi

chapter Chapter 32|10 pages

The a Priori

ByRoderick Chisholm

chapter Chapter 33|16 pages

Perceptual Knowledge

ByWilliam Alston

part Part Nine|67 pages

What can we know?

part |65 pages

Introduction to Part Nine

chapter Chapter 34|4 pages

The Circular Ruins

ByJorge Luis Borges

chapter Chapter 35|10 pages

The Problem of the Criterion

ByRoderick Chisholm

chapter Chapter 36|4 pages

Meditation One

ByRené Descartes

chapter Chapter 37|7 pages

Descartes’ Evil Genius

ByO. K. Bouwsma

chapter Chapter 38|4 pages

Certainty

ByG. E. Moore

chapter Chapter 39|13 pages

An Argument for Skepticism

ByPeter Unger

chapter Chapter 40|17 pages

Elusive Knowledge

ByDavid Lewis

part Part Ten|82 pages

Is knowledge in the eye of the beholder?

part |80 pages

Introduction to Part Ten

chapter Chapter 41|27 pages

Right You are (If You Think You are)

ByLuigi Pirandello

chapter Chapter 42|23 pages

Understanding a Primitive Society

ByPeter Winch

chapter Chapter 43|8 pages

What the Sokal Hoax Outght to Teach Us

The pernicious consequences and internal contradictions of 'postmodernist' relativism
ByPaul Boghossian

chapter Chapter 44|18 pages

Why (Wittgensteinian) Contextualism is Not Relativism 1

ByMichael Williams
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