Table of Contents

*=New to the third edition
Paul K. Moser and Arnold vander Nat: General Introduction: Human Knowledge--Its Nature, Sources, and Limits
PART I. CLASSICAL SOURCES
Greek and Medieval Sources:
1: Plato (c. 427-c.347 B.C.):
Meno; Phaedo; Republic; Theaetetus
2: Aristotle (384-322 B.C.):
Posterior Analytics; De Anima
3: Sextus Empiricus (A.D. 175?-225?):
Outlines of Pyrrhonism
4: Augustine (A.D. 354-430):
Contra Academicos; De Civitas Dei
5: Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274):
Summa Theologiae
Early Modern Sources:
6: René Descartes (1596-1650):
Meditations on First Philosophy
7: John Locke (1632-1704):
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
8: Gottfried Leibniz (1646-1716):
Introduction to New Essays on the Human Understanding
9: George Berkeley (1685-1753):
A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge
10: David Hume (1711-1776):
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
*11: Thomas Reid (1710-1796):
Inquiry into the Human Mind
12: Immanuel Kant (1724-1804):
Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics
PART II. CONTEMPORARY SOURCES
Pragmatism and Empiricism:
13: William James (1842-1910):
The Will to Believe
14: Bertrand Russell (1872-1970):
Appearance, Reality, and Knowledge By Acquaintance
15: A.J. Ayer (1910-1989):
Verification and Philosophy
16: Clarence Irving Lewis (1883-1965):
The Pragmatic Element in Knowledge
17: Rudolf Carnap (1891-1970):
Empiricism, Semantics, and Ontology
18: W.V. Quine (1908-2000):
Two Dogmas of Empiricism
*19: Richard Rorty:
Pragmatism, Relativism, and Irrationalism
The Analysis of Knowledge:
20: Edmund Gettier:
Is Justified True Belief Knowledge?
21: Richard Feldman:
An Alleged Defect in Gettier Counter-Examples
22: John Pollock:
The Gettier Problem
A Priori Knowledge:
23: Clarence Irving Lewis (1883-1965):
A Pragmatic Conception of the A Priori
24: Roderick M. Chisholm (1916-1999):
The Truths of Reason
25: Saul A. Kripke:
A Priori Knowledge, Necessity, and Contingency
Justified Belief:
26: William P. Alston:
Concepts of Epistemic Justification
27: Ernest Sosa:
The Raft and the Pyramid: Coherence versus Foundations in the Theory of Knowledge
*28: David B. Annis:
A Contextualist Theory of Epistemic Justification
*29: Richard Feldman and Earl Conee:
Evidentialism
30: Stephen Stich:
Reflective Equilibrium, Analytic Epistemology, and the Problem of Cognitive Diversity
Skepticism:
31: G. E. Moore (1873-1958):
Proof of an External World
32: Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951):
Cause and Effect: Intuitive Awareness
33: P.F. Strawson:
Skepticism, Naturalism, and Transcendental Arguments
*34: Ernest Sosa:
Philosophical Scepticism and Epistemic Circularity
*35: Barry Stroud:
Scepticism, 'Externalism', and the Goal of Epistemology
Epistemology and Psychology:
36: W.V. Quine (1908-2000):
Epistemology Naturalized
37: Hilary Putnam:
Why Reason Can't Be Naturalized
38: Alvin I. Goldman:
Epistemic Folkways and Scientific Epistemology
*39: Louis M. Antony:
Quine as Feminist: The Radical Import of Naturalized Epistemology
Name Index:
Subject Index:

Reviews

"A well-chosen collection of both classical and contemporary texts from the Western tradition in philosophy. Excellent general introduction and extremely helpful prefaces for the different parts."--Angelika Soldan, University of Texas at Brownsville