Epistemology: A contemporary introduction to the theory of knowledge

Epistemology: A Contemporary Introduction to the Theory of Knowledge

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 1-336

  Audi, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203982105     Document Type: Book

References (95)

1. Alston, William P., Epistemic Justification, Ithaca, NY and London, 1989. A collection of papers centering on justification and knowledge in a way that unites internalist and externalist elements. Especially relevant to Chapters 1, 3, and 7-10.
2. Alston, William P., Perceiving God, Ithaca, NY and London, 1991. A major study in religious epistemology, also containing much general epistemology, particularly in the theory of perception. Highly relevant to Chapters 1, 8, and 9.
3. Aristotle, Posterior Analytics, trans. by G.R.G.Mure, Oxford, 1928. A major text of immense influence. Especially relevant to Chapter 7.
4. Armstrong, D.M., Belief Truth and Knowledge, Cambridge, 1973. A wide-ranging epistemological essay influential in the reliabilist tradition. Especially pertinent to Chapters 1, 3, and 6 through 9.
5. Audi, Robert, The Structure of Justification, Cambridge and New York, 1993. A collection of recent papers covering most of the topics in Chapters 4, 6-8, and 10.
6. Aune, Bruce, Knowledge of the External World, London and New York, 1991. A historically oriented, integrated treatment of empirical knowledge. Bears particularly on Chapters 1, 7, and 10.
7. Austin, J.L., Sense and Sensibilia, Oxford, 1979 (reprint). A study of perception particularly pertinent to the appraisal of sense-datum theory and of relevance to understanding foundationalism. Especially relevant to Chapters 1 and 7.
8. Ayer, A.J., The Problem of Knowledge, Harmondsworth, Middlesex, 1956. An epistemological survey in the empiricist tradition. Especially relevant to Chapters 1, 2, 8, and 10.
9. Baergen, Ralph, Contemporary Epistemology, Fort Worth, 1995. A textbook addressing most of the topics treated here, with something of relevance to each chapter.
10. Berkeley, George, A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge, New York, 1929 (originally published in 1710). Perhaps the most important statement of phenomenalism, and of an idealist worldview in general, in the empiricist tradition. Bears particularly on Chapters 1, 3, 9, and 10.
11. Bogdan, Radu, Belief: Form, Function, and Content, Oxford, 1985. A collection of papers on the notion of belief. Mainly pertinent to the areas where epistemology overlaps philosophy of mind, esp. to Chapters 1 and 6.
12. BonJour, Laurence, The Structure of Empirical Knowledge, Cambridge, Mass., 1985. A detailed statement and defense of coherentism regarding empirical knowledge. Especially pertinent to Chapters 1, 4, 7, 8, and 10.
13. Brandt, R.B., and Ernest Nagel (eds), Meaning and Knowledge, New York, 1965. A large, historically informed assembly of classical and recent readings in epistemology. Bears on all the chapters.
14. Butchvarov, Panayot, The Concept of Knowledge, Evanston, 1970. A metaphysically oriented, foundationalist inquiry into the nature of knowledge. Especially pertinent to Chapters 1, 4, 7, 8, and 10.
15. Butchvarov, Panayot, Skepticism in Ethics, Bloomington, 1989. A detailed study of the possibility and possible extent of justification and knowledge in ethics. Particularly relevant to Chapters 9 and 10.
16. Chisholm, R.M., The Foundations of Knowing, Minneapolis, 1982. A collection of essays, on topics relevant to each chapter, by one of the major epistemologists of this century.
17. Chisholm, R.M., Theory of Knowledge, 2nd and 3rd edns, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1977 and 1989. A rigorous treatment of many basic topics in the field, and an introduction to Chisholm’s own epistemological views. Relevant to each chapter.
18. Chisholm, R.M., and Robert Swartz (eds), Empirical Knowledge, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1973. A large collection of recent writings. Especially pertinent to Chapters 1, 2, 3, and 7-10.
19. Coady, C.A.J., Testimony, Oxford, 1992. A comprehensive, historically wideranging treatment of testimony that links it at many points with the philosophy of language and the views of Wittgenstein. Pertinent above all to Chapter 5.
20. Craig, Edward, Knowledge and the State of Nature, Oxford, 1990. A sophisticated but lucid and concrete treatment of the problem of analyzing knowledge, with considerable attention to skepticism and far more on testimony than most general books on epistemology. Particularly relevant to Chapters 5, 8, and 10.
21. Dancy, Jonathan, Contemporary Epistemology, Oxford, 1985. A general introduction to contemporary epistemological literature. Bears on each chapter.
22. Dancy, Jonathan, and Ernest Sosa (eds), A Companion to Epistemology, Oxford, 1992. A comprehensive reference work highly pertinent to every chapter.
23. Danto, Arthur C., Analytical Philosophy of Knowledge, Cambridge, 1968. A broad epistemological essay with special focus on the structure of knowledge. Especially relevant to Chapters 6-10.
24. Descartes, René, Meditations on First Philosophy, in vol. 2 of The Philosophical Writings of Descartes, trans. by John Cottingham, Robert Stoohof, and Duglad Murdock, Cambridge, 1984 (originally published in 1641). One of the greatest and most influential works in modern epistemology, and a powerful statement of both rationalism and foundationalism. Bears on every chapter.
25. Dretske, Fred I., Knowledge and the flow of Information, Cambridge, Mass., 1981. A major statement of a reliabilist, information-theoretic account of knowledge. Particularly pertinent to Chapters 1, 8, and 10.
26. Dretske, Fred I., Seeing and Knowing, London, 1969. An intensive study of perception and its relation to empirical knowledge, with an influential defense of the notion of non-epistemic seeing. Especially relevant to Chapters 1, 3, 8, and 10.
27. Everitt, Nicholas, and Alec Fisher, Modern Epistemology, New York, 1995. A highlevel introductory textbook with special attention to mathematical and logical knowledge and detailed discussions of Quine (a major influence on the authors) and Rorty. Pertinent to most chapters, but especially 4 and 8.
28. Fales, Evan, A Defense of the Given, Lanham, M., 1966. A defense of the view that justification is conferred by what is given in immediate experience, with detailed applications to the foundationalism conceived as a plausible theory that makes use of the given.
29. Fogelin, Robert, Pyrrhonian Reflections on Knowledge and Justification, Oxford and New York, 1994. An intensive and sympathetic inquiry into skepticism, from a distinctively Pyrrhonian point of view. Relevant above all to Chapter 10.
30. Foley, Richard, The Theory of Epistemic Rationality, Cambridge, Mass., 1987. A detailed development of a subjectivistic theory of justification. Pertinent to every chapter.
31. Foley, Richard, Working without a Net, Cambridge, Mass.,1993. A development and generalization of his theory of epistemic rationality. Especially relevant to Chapters 7-10.
32. Fumerton, Richard A., Metaphysical and Epistemological Problems of Perception, Lincoln, Neb., 1985. A study of both the nature of the objects of perception and the way perception yields justification and knowledge. Especially pertinent to Chapters 1, 3, and 7.
33. Fumerton, Richard A. Metaepistemology and Skepticism, Lanham, Md., 1996. A systematic treatment of skepticism with special reference to the controversies between internalism and eternalism and foundationalism and coherentism. Highly relevant to Chapters 7, 8, and 10.
34. Ginet, Carl, Knowledge, Perception, and Memory, Dordrecht and Boston, 1975. A rigorous high-level study of these three notions in relation to each other. Particularly relevant to Chapters 1-3, 7, 8, and 10.
35. Goldman, Alan H., Empirical Knowledge, Berkeley, Calif., 1988. A detailed presentation of a theory of knowledge and evidence with special emphasis on inference to the best explanation. Pertinent above all to Chapters 1, 6, and 8-10.
36. Goldman, Alvin I., Epistemology and Cognition, Cambridge, Mass., 1986. A presentation of reliabilism for justification and knowledge, with much discussion of related developments in cognitive psychology. Particularly relevant to Chapters 1, 2, 6, and 8.
37. Haack, Susan, Evidence and Inquiry, Oxford, 1993. An attempt to combine the best elements in foundationalism and coherentism, with special attention to the connections between epistemology and philosophy of science. Bears especially on Chapters 7, 9, and 10.
38. Harman, Gilbert, Thought, Princeton, NJ, 1975. A broad study of the nature of knowledge, with much attention to defeasibility conditions. Bears especially on Chapters 1, 2, 6, 8, and 10.
39. Harman, Gilbert, Change in View, Cambridge, Mass., 1986. A detailed study of evidence and justification as bearing on changing, as opposed to simply holding, a position. Especially relevant to Chapters 6-9.
40. Heatherington, Stephen Cade, Knowledge Puzzles, Boulder, Colo., 1966. A comprehensive introduction to epistemology with emphasis on the puzzles generated by many of its central questions. One or another section bears on any given chapter.
41. Heil, John, Perception and Cognition, Berkeley, Calif., 1983. A study of perception in relation to belief, with discussions linking epistemology to philosophy of mind. Especially pertinent to Chapters 1, 3, and 8.
42. Hintikka, Jaakko, Knowledge and Belief, Ithaca, NY, 1962. A rigorous, advanced study in epistemic logic. Particularly relevant to Chapters 6 and 8.
43. Hume, David, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Indianapolis, 1977 (first published in 1748). A major work in modern epistemology, particularly for the topics of causation, induction, and skepticism. Especially relevant to Chapters 1, 4, 6, and 10.
44. Hume, David, A Treatise of Human Nature, Oxford, 1888 (originally published in 1739). One of the greatest and most influential works in modern philosophy, and a powerful statement of empiricism. It bears on every chapter.
45. Kant, Immanuel, Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics, trans. by Lewis White Beck, New York, 1950 (originally published in 1783). A short presentation of the ideas in Kant’s monumental Critique of Pure Reason, one of the greatest texts in modern philosophy. The Prolegomena bears particularly on Chapters 1, 4, 8, and 9.
46. Kitcher, Philip, The Nature of Mathematical Knowledge, New York and Oxford, 1984. A wide-ranging, historically informed treatment of mathematical knowledge, with a sustained critique of various apriorist conceptions of it and a positive account of a “defensible empiricism.�? Particularly relevant to Chapter 4.
47. Klein, Peter, Certainty: A Refutation of Scepticism, Minneapolis, 1981. A rigorous treatment of the nature of knowledge, certainty, and skepticism. Especially pertinent to Chapters 5, 8, and 10.
48. Kvanvig, Jonathan L., The Intellectual Virtues and the Life of the Mind, Lanham, Md, 1992. A statement and appraisal of a virtue epistemology, relevant mainly to Chapters 1 and 7-10.
49. Kyburg, Henry E., Jr., Epistemology and Inference, Minneapolis, 1983. A collection of advanced papers, of which several are especially pertinent to Chapters 6-9.
50. Landesman, Charles, Epistemology: An Introduction, Oxford, 1996. A nearly comprehensive introduction, with historically informed discussions making it particularly relevant to Chapters 1-4, and 8-10.
51. Lehrer, Keith, Knowledge, Oxford, 1974. A critique of foundationalism and development of the author’s own coherentist theory of knowledge, with a detailed, non-causal account of justification. Particularly relevant to Chapters 1, 3, and 7-10.
52. Lehrer, Keith, Theory of Knowledge, Boulder, Col., 1990. A sucessor to his Knowledge that presents a revised theory and is also relevant to Chapters 1, 3, and 7-10.
53. Lewis, C.I., An Analysis of Knowledge and Valuation, La Salle, 1946. A systematic study, in the foundationalist tradition, of many major epistemological and metaphysical questions. Especially relevant to Chapters 1-4 and 6, 7, and 9.
54. Locke, Don, Memory, New York, 1971. A concise but wide-ranging treatment of memory and memorial knowledge. Bears mainly on Chapter 2.
55. Locke, John, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, New York, 1928 (originally published in 1689). A major text in modern epistemology, and a powerful statement of a commonsense empiricism. Bears on each chapter.
56. Lycan, William, Judgment and Justification, New York, 1988. An account of justification and of aspects of knowledge, with emphasis on their connection with the notion of explanation and with selected topics in the philosophy of mind. Especially relevant to Chapters 1 and 6-10.
57. Malcolm, Norman, Knowledge and Certainty, Ithaca, NY, 1975. A collection of epistemological essays by a leading proponent of the philosophy of Wittgenstein. Especially relevant to Chapters 1, 2, 3, 8, and 10.
58. McGrew, Timothy J., The Foundations of Knowledge, Lanham, Md., 1995. A systematic defense of foundationalism (strong as opposed to moderate) relevant to Chapters 1, 4, 7, and 8.
59. Mill, John Stuart, A System of Logic, London, 1843. The leading nineteenthcentury statement of radical empiricism. Especially relevant to Chapters 4 and 6-9.
60. Montmarquet, James A., Epistemic Virtue and Doxastic Responsibility, Lanham, Md., 1993. A statement and appraisal of a virtue epistemology with special emphasis on the relation between justification and intellectual responsibility. Especially relevant to Chapters 1 and 7-10.
61. Morton, Adam, A Guide Through the Theory of Knowledge, 2nd edn, Oxford, 1996. A brief but moderately comprehensive introduction, with more on probability and induction than many short books of the same range. Pertinent to nearly every chapter.
62. Moser, Paul K., Knowledge and Evidence, New York, 1993. A rigorous and detailed presentation of an account of knowledge and the nature and scope of its supporting grounds. Especially pertinent to Chapters 1, 4, and 7-10.
63. Moser, Paul K., Philosophy after Objectivity, Oxford and New York, 1993. A rigorous treatment of the relation of realism to skepticism and of both to semantic questions about meaning and epistemological questions about evidence, reasons, and justification. Especially pertinent to Chapters 4, and 7 to 10.
64. Moser, Paul K., and Arnold Van Der Nat (eds), Human Knowledge, 2nd edn, New York, 1995. An extensive set of classical and contemporary readings, with editors’ introductions to each section. Pertinent to every chapter.
65. Nozick, Robert, Philosophical Explanations, Cambridge, Mass., 1981. Contains a book-length epistemology section bearing on Chapters 6-8 and 10.
66. O’Connor, D.J., and Brian Carr, Introduction to the Theory of Knowledge, Minneapolis, 1982. A general introduction bearing on each chapter.
67. Pappas, George S., and Marshall Swain, Essays on Knowledge and Justification, Ithaca, NY, 1978. A collection of papers, many influential, mainly from professional journals. Especially relevant to Chapters 1 and 6-10.
68. Plantinga, Alvin, Warrant and Proper Function, New York, 1993. A systematic development of a theory of warrant as to what renders true belief knowledge and of key epistemic concepts related to warrant. Particularly relevant to Chapters 1, 4, and 7-10.
69. Plantinga, Alvin, Warrant: The Current Debate, New York, 1993. A critical study of many major epistemological theories. Highly relevant to Chapters 7-10.
70. Plato, Theaetetus, trans. by F.M.Cornford, Cambridge, 1934. A major text in the history of epistemology. Especially relevant to Chapter 8.
71. Pojman, Louis P., The Theory of Knowledge, Belmont, Calif., 1993. A collection of classical and comtemporary readings relevant to every chapter.
72. Pojman, Louis P., What Can We Know?, Belmont, Calif., 1995. A wide-ranging, highly readable, historically informed introduction with attention both to basic issues and to classical and contemporary literature. Pertinent to every chapter.
73. Pollock, John L., Contemporary Theories of Knowledge, Totowa, NJ, 1986. A treatment of some leading current theories in epistemology that also presents the author’s own account of some key concepts. Bears especially on Chapters 1, 4, 7, 8, and 10.
74. Pollock, John L., Knowledge and Justification, Princeton, NJ, 1974. A systematic, wide-ranging treatment of these notions which develops a foundationalist account of both. It bears on all the chapters.
75. Price, H.H., Perception, Oxford, 1932. A detailed major study of the topic, with important discussions of sense-data. Especially relevant to Chapters 1 and 10.
76. Quine, W.V., The Pursuit of Truth, Revised edn, Cambridge, Mass., 1992. A short statement of many of Quine’s epistemological views, with valuable discussions connecting epistemology with the philosophy of science. The chapters devoted to evidence, meaning, perception, and truth (respectively) make it especially pertinent to Chapters 1, 4, 5, 6, 8, and 9.
77. Quine, W.V., and Joseph Ullian, The Web of Belief, 2nd edn, New York, 1978. An introductory treatment of the development of common sense and scientific knowledge. Bears particularly on Chapters 1, 4, and 8-10.
78. Quinton, Anthony, The Nature of Things, London, 1973. A survey of problems in metaphysics and epistemology, with much discussion of the foundationalismcoherentism controversy. Especially relevant to Chapters 1, 7, and 8.
79. Reid, Thomas, Essays on the Intellectual Powers of Man, London, 1869 (originally published in 1785). An important critique of other modern philosophers, rationalist and empiricist, and an original development of a commonsense epistemology. Especially relevant to Chapters 1-4, 7, 8, and 10.
80. Rescher, Nicholas, Skepticism, Oxford, 1980. A detailed critical survey of many of the arguments for skepticism. Especially relevant to Chapters 8 and 10.
81. Robinson, Howard, Perception, London and New York, 1994. A historically detailed defense of the sense-datum theory in the philosophy of perception. Bears on Chapters 1-3.
82. Rorty, Richard, Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature, Princeton, NJ, 1979. A widely discussed critique of the foundationalist tradition in epistemology (and indeed of aspects of epistemology itself), with special attention to strong foundationalism as deriving from Descartes. Pertinent especially to Chapters 1, 7, and 10.
83. Russell, Bertrand, An Inquiry into Meaning and Truth, London, 1940. An articulation of an overall epistemological position by one of the twentieth century’s major epistemologists. Especially relevant to Chapters 1 and 7-9.
84. Russell, Bertrand, The Problems of Philosophy, London, 1912. An introductory and highly readable survey of epistemology and metaphysics. Particularly pertinent to Chapters 1, 3, 4, and 8-10.
85. Sellars, Wilfrid, Science, Perception, and Reality, London, 1963. A collection of advanced epistemological papers by a major contemporary philosopher. Especially pertinent to Chapters 1, 3, 4, and 7-9.
86. Shope, Robert, The Analysis of Knowing, Princeton, NJ, 1983. A highly detailed study of major kinds of analysis of knowledge. Especially relevant to Chapter 8.
87. Sosa, Ernest, Knowledge in Perspective, Cambridge and New York, 1991. A wideranging collection of papers intensively exploring most of the topics treated in Chapters 1, 4, and 7-10.
88. Steup, Matthias, An Introduction to Contemporary Epistemology, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1966. A comprehensive and systematic introduction to epistemology, with close attention both to theoretical and conceptual issues and to major statements in the literature. Pertinent to every chapter, but above all to Chapters 1, 4, 6-8, and 10.
89. Stroud, Barry, The Significance of Philosophical Scepticism, Oxford, 1984. An intensive study of skepticism, particularly as set out by Descartes. Particularly relevant to Chapters 1, 8, and 10.
90. Swain, Marshall, Reasons and Knowledge, Ithaca, NY, 1981. A rigorous statement of an account of knowledge that unites justificationist and reliabilist elements. Especially relevant to Chapters 1, 6, and 8.
91. Will, Frederick L., Induction and Justification, Ithaca, NY, 1974. A critical study of a foundationalist approach to justification, with much attention to the problem of induction. Especially relevant to Chapters 7-10.
92. Williams, Michael, Unnatural Doubts, Oxford, 1991. A detailed diagnostic account of skepticism and some major issues concerning the possibility of foundations of knowledge. Pertinent especially to Chapters 1, 7, 8, and 10.
93. Wittgenstein, Ludwig, On Certainty, trans. by Dennis Paul and G.E.M.Anscombe, Oxford, 1969. An important discussion of the topic by one of the major twentieth-century philosophers. Especially relevant to Chapters 8 and 10.
94. Wittgenstein, Ludwig, Philosophical Investigations, trans. by G.E.M.Anscombe, Oxford, 1953. Wittgenstein’s most wide-ranging work, spanning topics in epistemology, metaphysics, and other philosophical areas. Its remarks and examples bear on every chapter.
95. Zagzebski, Linda, Virtues of the Mind, Cambridge and New York, 1996. A new statement of virtue epistemology distinctive for its background account of virtue ethics as the counterpart on which virtue epistemology should be based. Pertinent above all to Chapter 8.