A Companion to Epistemology

Dancy, Jonathan / Sosa, Ernest / Steup, Matthias (Herausgeber)

Blackwell Companions to Philosophy

2. Auflage Januar 2010
832 Seiten, Hardcover
Fachbuch

ISBN: 978-1-4051-3900-7

John Wiley & Sons

Kurzbeschreibung

The Companion Epistemology, Second Edition, is the most comprehensive and up-to-date single volume reference guide in this field. This new edition is comprised of over 260 A-Z entries from leading experts that have been extensively revised to bring the volume up-to-date, with many new and re-written entries reflecting developments in the field. It also includes a new section on review essays on basic problems to introduce readers to the main issues in the field and a new self-profile section with 20 entries by renowned epistemologists.

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With nearly 300 entries on key concepts, review essays on central issues, and self-profiles by leading scholars, this companion is the most comprehensive and up-to-date single volume reference guide to epistemology.

* Epistemology from A-Z is comprised of 296 articles on important epistemological concepts that have been extensively revised to bring the volume up-to-date, with many new and re-written entries reflecting developments in the field
* Includes 20 new self-profiles by leading epistemologists
* Contains 10 new review essays on central issues of epistemology

Preface.

Part I: Review Essays on Basic Problems.

Part II: Epistemological Self-Profiles.

Part III: Epistemology from A-Z

Jonathan Dancy is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Reading and the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of Introduction to Contemporary Epistemology (Blackwell, 1985), Berkeley (1987), Moral Reasons (Blackwell, 1992) and Ethics without Principles (2004).

Ernest Sosa is Board of Governors Professor at Rutgers University. He is the author of Epistemic Justification: Internalism vs. Externalism, Foundations vs. Virtues (together with Laurence BonJour) in the Wiley-Blackwell series Great Debates in Philosophy (2003), A Virtue Epistemology; Apt Belief and Reflective Knowledge, Volume I (2007), and Reflective Knowledge; Apt Belief and Reflective Knowledge, Volume II (2009). His publications also include his replies for the volume Sosa and His Critics (edited by John Greco, 2004) in the Wiley-Blackwell series Philosophers and Their Critics, as well as numerous articles.

Matthias Steup is Professor of Philosophy at Purdue University. He is the author of An Introduction to Contemporary Epistemology (1996) and many articles in epistemology. He edited Knowledge, Truth, and Duty: Essays on Epistemic Justification, Responsibility, and Virtue (2001), and he is co-editor with Ernest Sosa of Contemporary Debates in Epistemology (Blackwell, 2005).

J. Dancy, University of Reading, UK; E. Sosa, Brown University, USA; M. Steup, Purdue University, USA