Knowledge
Readings in Contemporary Epistemology
Sven Bernecker and Edited by Fred I. Dretske
Table of Contents
PART I. JUSTIFIED TRUE BELIEF
Introduction
The Gettier Problem
1:Knowing as Having the Right to be Sure, A J Ayer
2:Is Justified True Belief Knowledge?, Edmund L. Gettier
3:An Alleged Defect in Gettier Counter-Examples, Richard Feldman
Responses to Gettier
4:A Causal Theory of Knowing, Alvin I Goldman
5:Knowledge: Undefeated Justified True Belief, Keith Lehrer, Thomas D Paxson, Jr.
6:Conclusive Reasons, Fred I Dretske
PART II. EXTERNALISM AND INTERNALISM
Introduction
Externalism
7:The 'Thermometer' View of Knowledge, David M Armstrong
8:Discrimination and Perceptual Knowledge, Alvin I Goldman
9:Precis of 'Knowledge and the Flow of Information', Fred I Dretske
Internalism
10:The Indispensability of Internal Justification, Roderick M Chisholm
11:The Elements of Coherentism, Laurence BonJour
12:The Coherence Theory of Knowledge, Keith Lehrer
Criticisms and Compromises
13:What's Wrong with Reliabilism?, Richard Foley
14:Externalist Theories of Empirical Knowledge, Laurence BonJour
15:A Rationale for Reliabilism, Kent Bach
16:An Internalist Externalism, William P Alston
PART III. FOUNDATIONS AND NORMS
Introduction
Foundations
17:The Given, H H Price
18:The Directly Evident, Roderick M Chisholm
19:Does Empirical Knowledge have a Foundation?, Wilfrid Sellars
Normativity
20:Naturalized Epistemology, W V Quine
21:What is Naturalized Epistemology?, Jaegwon Kim
PART IV. SKEPTICISM
Introduction
Motivations
22:Understanding Human Knowledge in General, Barry Stroud
23:A defence of Skepticism, Peter Unger
Relevant Alternatives
24:Other Minds, J L Austin
25:. Knowledge and Scepticism, Robert Nozick
26:Elusive Knowledge, David Lewis
Semantic Approaches
27:Brains in a Vat, Hilary Putnam
28:The Epistemology of Belief, Fred I Dretske
29:A Coherence Theory of Truth and Knowledge, Donald Davidson
PART V. SOURCES OF KNOWLEDGE
Introduction
Perception
30:The Causal Theory of Perception, H P Grice
31:Perception and its Objects, Peter F Strawson
Introspection
32:Individualism and Self-Knowledge, Tyler Burge
33:Content and Self-Knowledge, Paul A. Boghossian
34:Externalism and the Attitudinal Component of Self-Knowledge, Sven Bernecker
Memory and Testimony
35:Remembering, C B Martin and Max Deutscher
36:Testimony and Observation, C A J Coady
Induction
37:On Induction, Bertrand Russell
38:The Pragmatic Justification of Induction, Hans Reichenback
39:The New Riddle of Induction, Nelson Goodman
A Priori Knowledge
40:A Priori Knowledge, Necessity, and Contingency, Saul A Kripke
41:A Priori Knowledge, Philip Kitcher
Index