Table of Contents

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

About the Author

Fred Dretske is Bella and Eloise Knapp Professor in the Humanities, Emeritus, Stanford University and Senior Research Scholar, Duke University.

Sven Bernecker is Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Munich