Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 288
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Trim: 6 x 9⅛
978-0-8476-8937-8 • Paperback • March 1999 • $47.00 • (£36.00)
978-0-7425-7514-1 • eBook • March 1999 • $44.50 • (£34.00)
John L. Pollock is professor of philosophy at the University of Arizona. Joseph Cruz is assistant professor of philosophy and cognitive science at Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts.
Chapter 1 Preface
Chapter 2 The Problems of Knowledge
Chapter 3 Foundations Theories
Chapter 4 Coherence Theories
Chapter 5 Externalism
Chapter 6 Epistemic Norms
Chapter 7 Epistemology and Rationality
Chapter 8 Direct Realism
Chapter 9 Bibliography
Chapter 10 Index
Chapter 11 About the Authors
"This is a stimulating book which everyone interested in the subject should read."
— Philosophy and Phenomenological Research
A thorough and accurate survey of the present state of the subject, [Pollock's] book is also an original contribution of first importance. I know of no better introduction to contemporary theories of knowledge.
— Roderick M. Chisholm, Brown University
A fine introduction to the field and to Pollock's own thought.
— Ernest Sosa, Brown University
An excellent recent survey of the present-day epistemologies of secular philosophy. . . . We can learn much . . . from the thoroughness and rigor of Pollock's argument."
— Westminster Theological Journal
The book can be read with great profit not only by advanced philosophy students, but by all professional philosophers.
— The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science
—A new and thoroughly revised edition of a classic text in epistemology
—Discusses central topics in current epistemology: foundationalism, coherentism, and reliabilism
—Offers a groundbreaking assessment of twentieth-century epistemology
—A clearand readable overview of current epistemology for students, philosophers, and readers in related fields, such as cognitive science
—Includes a presentation of the authors' own distinctive view: direct realism
—Discusses topics such as the relationshipof rationality to probability theory, epistemic normativity, naturalism and the methodology of intuitions in epistemology