Philosophy (PHL)

This book has topics covering the latest developments and debates in epistemology including 26 essays addressing questions such as:
Should knowledge come first? Do practical matters affect whether you know? Is virtuous motivation essential to knowing? Can knowledge be lucky? Can evidence be permissive? This edition substantially updates two other debates: Is there immediate justification? Can belief be justified through coherence alone?

This is a straightforward and accessible introduction to contemporary epistemology for those studying the topic for the first time. It is a step-by-step introduction to contemporary epistemology, with coverage of skepticism, epistemic justification, epistemic closure, virtue epistemology, naturalized epistemology, and more.

This book will introduce you to the major traditional and contemporary accounts of knowing. Lehrer explores the truth, belief, and justification conditions on the way to a thorough examination of foundation theories of knowledge, the work of Platinga, externalism and naturalized epistemologies, internalism and modern coherence theories, contextualism, and recent reliabilist and causal theories.

This volume represents the most comprehensive and authoritative collection of canonical readings in theory of knowledge. Topics include skepticism and the Pyrrhonian problematic, the definition of knowledge, and the structure of epistemic justification.

"Does science explain the world, or does it simply describe it? Can science ever be truly objective? What is the boundary between science and non-science? Does nature have laws? This menu-driven DVD seeks to answer questions such as these through the insights of Princeton University's Daniel Garber; Hilary Putnam, of Harvard University; and Barry Loewer, of Rutgers University ..."--[P. 4] of cover of DVD container