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Gebundenes Buch

Epistemology

An Anthology

Herausgeber: Sosa, Ernest; McGrath, Matthew; Fantl, Jeremy; Kim, Jaekwon

Beschreibung

The simplest questions are never so simple. "What is knowledge?" has been pondered for millennia - and continues to engage the most brilliant philosophical minds. With all central topics in the field included - skepticism, the definition and structure of knowledge, the nature of epistemic justification, and many more - Epistemology: An Anthology continues to represent the most comprehensive and authoritative collection of canonical readings in the theory of knowledge. In addition to including all-new sections on Epistemic Closure and Testimony, Memory, and Perception; the editors have updated many of the sections from the first edition by adding new selections on the value of knowledge, sensitive invariantism, and epistemic relativism among other topics. Striking an excellent balance between traditional theories and cutting edge contemporary methodologies, Epistemology: An Anthology is an essential compendium for all philosophers concerned with the latest developments in the theory of knowledge.

Autor

Ernest Sosa is Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University. He is the author of Knowledge in Perspective (1991) and A Virtue Epistemology (2007), and co-editor (with John Greco) of The Blackwell Guide to Epistemology (1999) and other texts. Jaegwon Kim has taught at Cornell University, Johns Hopkins University, and the University of Michigan. He is currently the William Perry Faunce Professor of Philosophy at Brown University. He has authored and edited several philosophical texts, including Supervenience and the Mind (1993) and Physicalism, or Something Near Enough (2005). Jeremy Fantl is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Calgary. He and Matthew McGrath are writing a book entitled Pragmatic Encroachment in Epistemology. Matthew McGrath is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Missouri-Columbia. He is the author of Between Deflationism and the Correspondence Theory (2000) and is co-authoring Pragmatic Encroachment in Epistemology with Jeremy Fantl.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley
• 2nd edition
• Seitenzahl: 944
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 170mm x 53mm
• Gewicht: 1633g
• ISBN-13: 9781405169677
• ISBN-10: 1405169672
• Artikelnr.: 23837388

Rezensionen

"This carefully conceived collection puts together the keyarticles in a comprehensive range of topics. With a restructuredtable of contents and many new articles, the second editionsupplies the reader with the full range of recent, cutting edge,developments. An ideal text for teaching contemporary epistemology,it will prove to be an indispensable volume."
Matthias Steup, St Cloud State University

"This excellent anthology contains outstanding paperswritten on both traditional and cutting edge issues inepistemology. Every major topic and every major approach to thosetopics is covered through selections representing many of the mostinfluential figures in contemporary analytic epistemology. It iswithout doubt the best text of its kind."
Richard Fumerton, University of Iowa