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Record Nr.

UNINA9910143102003321

Autore

Dancy Jonathan

Titolo

A Companion to Epistemology [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hoboken, : Wiley, 2009

ISBN

1-78268-817-X

1-282-47212-7

9786612472121

1-4051-7729-2

1-4443-1508-0

1-4443-1509-9

Edizione

[2nd ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (825 p.)

Collana

Blackwell companions to philosophy

Classificazione

5,1

CC 4200

Altri autori (Persone)

SosaErnest

SteupMatthias

Disciplina

121

Soggetti

Knowledge, Theory of

W'orterbuch

Speculative Philosophy

Philosophy

Philosophy & Religion

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

A Companion to Epistemology; Contents; Contributors; Preface to the First Edition; Preface to the Second Edition; Part I Ten Review Essays; Skepticism and Closure; Contextualism; Foundations and Coherence; Recent Work on the Internalism-Externalism Controversy; A Priori Knowledge; The Common Sense Tradition; The Power of Perception; Virtue Epistemology; Social Epistemology; Bayesian Epistemology; Part II Twenty Epistemological Self-profiles; Robert Audi; Laurence BonJour; Stewart Cohen; Earl Conee and Richard Feldman; Fred Dretske; Richard Foley; Richard Fumerton; Alvin I. Goldman

Gilbert HarmanPeter Klein; Hilary Kornblith; Keith Lehrer; Alvin Plantinga; John Pollock; Ernest Sosa; Barry Stroud; Michael Williams;



Timothy Williamson; Crispin Wright; Linda Zagzebski; Part III Epistemology from A to Z; A; a priori/a posteriori; abduction; absurdity; Academy (Plato); act/object analysis; adverbial theory; agnosticism; Alston, William P. (1921-2009); analyticity; anamnesis; antinomy; apodeictic; aporia; apperception; Aquinas, Thomas (1225-74); argument; argument from analogy; argument from illusion; Aristotle (384-322 BC); Armstrong, David M. (1926- ); association; ataraxia

Augustine, St (354-430)Austin, John L(angshaw) (1911-60); avowals; axiomatization, axiomatics; Ayer, A(lfred) J(ules) (1910-89); B; Bacon, Francis, Lord Verulam (1561-1626); basic belief; behaviourism; belief; belief in and belief that; Bergmann, Gustav (1906-87); Berkeley, George (1685-1753); Blanshard, Brand (1892-1987); Brentano, Franz (1838-1917); burden of proof; C; Carnap, Rudolf (1891-1970); Cartesianism; causal theories in epistemology; certainty; Chisholm, Roderick (1916-99); circular reasoning; cogito; coherentism; collective belief; commonsensism and critical cognitivism; concepts

Continental epistemologyconvention; conversational implicature; criteria and knowledge; criterion, canon; critical cognitivism; D; Davidson, Donald (1930-2003); death of epistemology; defeasibility; definition; Derrida, Jacques (1930-2004); Descartes, Rene (1596-1650); Dewey, John (1859-1952); dialectic (Hegel); dialectic (Plato); different constructions in terms of ""knows""; direct realism; disposition; dogmatism; doxastic voluntarism; Dutch book argument; E; empiricism; Epicurus (c.341-271 BC); epistemic deontologism; epistemic luck; epistemic supervenience; epistemic virtue; epoche

essence (Husserl)essence (Plato); essentialism; ethics and epistemology; evidence; evolutionary argument against naturalism; evolutionary epistemology; existence; experience, theories of; explanation; external world; externalism/internalism; F; fact/value; fallibilism; feminist epistemology; first philosophy; Firth, Roderick (1917-87); Foucault, Michel (1926-84); foundationalism; Frege, Gottlob (1848-1925); Freud, Sigmund (1856-1939); G; Gadamer, Hans-Georg (1900-2002); genetic epistemology; genetic fallacy; geometry; Gettier problem; given, the; Goodman, Nelson (1906-98)

Grice, H. Paul (1913-88)

Sommario/riassunto

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 fieldIncludes 20 new self-profiles by leading epistemologistsContains 10 new review essays on central issues of epistemology</ul