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Record Nr.

UNINA9911018830403321

Titolo

A companion to epistemology / / edited by Jonathan Dancy, Ernest Sosa, and Matthias Steup

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Malden, MA, : Wiley-Blackwell, 2010

ISBN

9786612472121

9781782688174

178268817X

9781282472129

1282472127

9781405177290

1405177292

9781444315080

1444315080

9781444315097

1444315099

Edizione

[2nd ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (825 p.)

Collana

Blackwell companions to philosophy

Classificazione

5,1

CC 4200

Altri autori (Persone)

DancyJonathan

SosaErnest

SteupMatthias

Disciplina

121

Soggetti

Knowledge, Theory of

Philosophy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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