Knowledge in Perspective: Selected Essays in EpistemologyEver since Plato, philosophers have faced one central question: what is the scope and nature of human knowledge? In this volume the distinguished philosopher Ernest Sosa collects essays on this subject written over a period of twenty-five years. All the major topics of contemporary epistemology are covered: the nature of propositional knowledge; externalism versus internalism; foundationalism versus coherentism; and the problem of the criterion. |
Contents
The analysis of knowledge that p | 15 |
How do you know? | 19 |
On our knowledge of matters of fact | 35 |
Presuppositions of empirical knowledge | 51 |
Epistemology today a perspective in retrospect | 65 |
Nature unmirrored epistemology naturalized | 86 |
Theories of justification old doctrines newly defended | 108 |
Reliabilism and intellectual virtue | 131 |
The raft and the pyramid coherence versus foundations in the theory of knowledge | 165 |
The coherence of virtue and the virtue of coherence | 192 |
Testimony and coherence | 215 |
Knowledge and intellectual virtue | 225 |
Methodology and apt belief | 245 |
Equilibrium in coherence? | 257 |
Intellectual virtue in perspective | 270 |
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