New Waves in Epistemology

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Pub. Date: 2008-01-15
Publisher(s): Palgrave Macmillan
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Summary

In the past thirty years epistemology has been one of the fastest moving disciplines in philosophy. The reason for the rapid advancement is partly due to the fact that various schools and movements inside epistemology have developed different answers to classical epistemological problems, and partly due to the fact that formal methods from logic, probability theory and computability have been utilized to deal with many of the same issues and used for applications outside traditional epistemology. New Waves in Epistemology reflects these changes by letting up-and-coming scholars describe the current trends as well as discussing the prospects for future development.

Author Biography

VINCENT HENDRICKS is an Associate Professor of Epistemology, Logic and Methodology at Roskilde University, Denmark. He is author of various books on logic, epistemology and methodology, most notably The Convergence of Scientific Knowledge: A View from the Limit (Kluwer, 2001) and Forcing Epistemology (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming) as well as editor of a number of works on epistemology. He is editor-in-chief of Synthese Library, editor of Trends in Logic, reviews editor for Studia Logica, and founder and editor-in-chief of ?NEWS.

DUNCAN PRITCHARD is a Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Stirling, Scotland, UK. His research is primarily in epistemology, and he has published widely in this area including a monograph entitled Epistemic Luck (OUP, 2005) as well as recent articles in such journals as the Australasian Journal of Philosophy, American Philosophical Quarterly, Synthese and The Philosophical Quarterly. He is the editor, with Michael Brady, of Moral Epistemic Virtues (Blackwell, 2003) and is the editor, with Patrick Greenough, of Williamson and his Critics (OUP, forthcoming).

Table of Contents

List of Figuresp. vii
Forewordp. viii
List of Contributorsp. ix
Introductionp. 1
Defending a Sensitive Neo-Moorean Invariantismp. 8
Knowledge, Luck and Lotteriesp. 28
Reidian Externalismp. 52
The Present and Future State of Epistemic Deontologismp. 75
Epistemic Logic and Epistemologyp. 106
The Semantic Turn in Epistemology: A Critical Examination of Hintikka's Logic of Knowledgep. 137
The Plausibility-Informativeness Theoryp. 164
The Place of Coherence in Epistemologyp. 192
Reliability, Margin for Error, and Self-Knowledgep. 215
Consider the Systemp. 251
Knowability, Possibility and Paradoxp. 270
The Value Turn in Epistemologyp. 300
How to Naturalize Epistemologyp. 324
Knowledge and the Heuristics of Folk Epistemologyp. 354
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