Chapter 1: Epistemology: A First Look
1. Why Study Knowledge?
2. Some Doubts about Knowledge
3. Traditional Definition of Knowledge
4. Knowledge and Experience
5. Intuitions and Theory
Chapter 2: Explaining Knowledge
1. The Scope of Epistemology
2. The Concept of Knowledge
3. Epistemology, Naturalism, and Pragmatism
4. Value in Epistemology
Chapter 3: Belief
1. Belief and Representational States
2. Belief and Belief-Ascription
3. Are Beliefs Transparent?
4. Belief and Theoretical Ideals
5. Eliminativism and Prediction
Chapter 4: Truth
1. Relativism
2. Truth and Correspondence
3. Truth and Coherence
4. Truth and Pragmatic Value
5. Kinds and Notions of Truth
Chapter 5: Jusitification and Beyond
1. Justifications, Truth and Defeat
2. Inferential Justification and the Regress Problem
3. Supplementing Justification: The Gettier Problem
Chapter 6: Sources of Knowledge
1. Rationalism, Empiricism, and Innatissm
2. Empiricism, Positivism, and Underdetermination
3. Intuitions and First-Person Reports
4. Memory
5. Theoretical Unification
6. Testimony and Social Dependence
Chapter 7: Rationality
1. Preliminary Distinctions
2. Rational Inference: Normative and Descriptive
3. Consistency and Wayward Beliefs
4. Rationality and Decision Under Uncertainty
5. Integrative Considerations about Rationality
Chapter 8: Skepticism
1. Some Species of Skepticism
2. Some Skeptical Arguments
3. A Reply from Common Sense
4. Skepticism, Naturalism, and Broad Explanation
Chapter 9: Epistemology and Explanation
1. Origins of Contemporary Epistemology
2. Ultimate Epistemological Authority
3. Explanation and Knowledge
References
For Further Reading
Glossary
Index