Description
Book SynopsisWith 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 of296 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 field
- Includes20 new self-profiles by leading epistemologists
- Contains10 new review essays on central issues of epistemology
Trade Review"Recommended. Libraries supporting lower-level undergraduates through graduate students". (Choice, October 2010)
Table of ContentsList of Contributors xiii
Preface to the First Edition xix
Preface to the Second Edition xxiii
Part I Ten Review Essays 1
Skepticism and Closure Anthony Brueckner 3
Contextualism Richard Feldman 12
Foundations and Coherence Michael Huemer 22
Recent Work on the Internalism–Externalism Controversy Laurence BonJour 33
A Priori Knowledge Albert Casullo 43
The Common Sense Tradition Noah Lemos 53
The Power of Perception Peter Markie 62
Virtue Epistemology John Greco 75
Social Epistemology Alvin Goldman 82
Bayesian Epistemology Alan Hájek and Stephan Hartmann 93
Part II Twenty Epistemological Self-profiles 107
Robert Audi 109
Laurence BonJour 114
Stewart Cohen 118
Earl Conee and Richard Feldman 123
Fred Dretske 130
Richard Foley 134
Richard Fumerton 139
Alvin I. Goldman 144
Gilbert Harman 152
Peter Klein 156
Hilary Kornblith 163
Keith Lehrer 168
Alvin Plantinga 173
John Pollock 178
Ernest Sosa 185
Barry Stroud 190
Michael Williams 194
Timothy Williamson 199
Crispin Wright 204
Linda Zagzebski 210
Part III Epistemology from A to Z 217
