Human Knowledge: Classical and Contemporary Approaches / Edition 3

by Paul K. Moser, Arnold vander Nat

Overview

Offering a unique and wide-ranging examination of the theory of knowledge, the new edition of this comprehensive collection deftly blends readings from the foremost classical sources with the work of important contemporary philosophical thinkers. Human Knowledge: Classical and Contemporary Approaches, 3/e, offers philosophical examinations of epistemology from ancient Greek and Roman philosophy (Plato, Aristotle, Sextus Empiricus); medieval philosophy (Augustine, Aquinas); early modern philosophy (Descartes, Locke, Leibniz, Berkeley, Hume, Reid, Kant); classical pragmatism and Anglo-American empiricism (James, Russell, Ayer, Lewis, Carnap, Quine, Rorty); and other influential Anglo-American philosophers (Chisholm, Kripke, Moore, Wittgenstein, Strawson, Putnam).
Organized chronologically and thematically, Human Knowledge, 3/e, features exceptionally broad coverage and nontechnical selections that are easily accessible to students. An ideal text for both undergraduate and graduate courses in epistemology, it is enhanced by the editors' substantial general introduction, section overviews, and up-to-date bibliographies. The third edition offers expanded selections on contemporary epistemology and adds selections by Thomas Reid, Richard Rorty, David B. Annis, Richard Feldman and Earl Conee, Ernest Sosa, Barry Stroud, and Louise M. Antony. Human Knowledge, 3/e, offers an unparalleled introduction to our ancient struggle to understand our own intellectual experience.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780195149661
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	08/29/2002
Edition description:	REV
Pages:	592
Product dimensions:	6.50(w) x 9.20(h) x 1.05(d)

About the Author

both at Loyola University, Chicago

Table of Contents

*=New to the third editionGeneral Introduction: Human Knowledge—Its Nature, Sources, and Limits, Paul K. Moser and Arnold vander NatPART I. CLASSICAL SOURCES, Greek and Medieval Sources1. , Plato (c. 427-c.347 B.C.)Meno; Phaedo; Republic; Theaetetus2. , Aristotle (384-322 B.C.)Posterior Analytics; De Anima3. , Sextus Empiricus (A.D. 175?-225?)Outlines of Pyrrhonism4. , Augustine (A.D. 354-430)Contra Academicos; De Civitas Dei5. , Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274)Summa Theologiae, Early Modern Sources6. , René Descartes (1596-1650)Meditations on First Philosophy7. , John Locke (1632-1704)An Essay Concerning Human Understanding8. , Gottfried Leibniz (1646-1716)Introduction to New Essays on the Human Understanding9. , George Berkeley (1685-1753)A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge10. , David Hume (1711-1776)An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding11. *, Thomas Reid (1710-1796)Inquiry into the Human Mind12. , Immanuel Kant (1724-1804)Prolegomena to Any Future MetaphysicsPART II. CONTEMPORARY SOURCES, Pragmatism and Empiricism13. , William James (1842-1910)The Will to Believe14. , Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)Appearance, Reality, and Knowledge By Acquaintance15. , A.J. Ayer (1910-1989)Verification and Philosophy16. , Clarence Irving Lewis (1883-1965)The Pragmatic Element in Knowledge17. , Rudolf Carnap (1891-1970)Empiricism, Semantics, and Ontology18. , W.V. Quine (1908-2000)Two Dogmas of Empiricism19. *, Richard RortyPragmatism, Relativism, and Irrationalism, The Analysis of Knowledge20. , Edmund GettierIs Justified True Belief Knowledge? 21. , Richard FeldmanAn Alleged Defect in Gettier Counter-Examples22. , John PollockThe Gettier Problem, A Priori Knowledge23. , Clarence Irving Lewis (1883-1965)A Pragmatic Conception of the A Priori24. , Roderick M. Chisholm (1916-1999)The Truths of Reason25. , Saul A. KripkeA Priori Knowledge, Necessity, and Contingency, Justified Belief26. , William P. AlstonConcepts of Epistemic Justification27. , Ernest SosaThe Raft and the Pyramid: Coherence versus Foundations in the Theory of Knowledge28. *, David B. AnnisA Contextualist Theory of Epistemic Justification29. *, Richard Feldman and Earl ConeeEvidentialism30. , Stephen StichReflective Equilibrium, Analytic Epistemology, and the Problem of Cognitive Diversity, Skepticism31. , G. E. Moore (1873-1958)Proof of an External World32. , Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951)Cause and Effect: Intuitive Awareness33. , P.F. StrawsonSkepticism, Naturalism, and Transcendental Arguments34. *, Ernest SosaPhilosophical Scepticism and Epistemic Circularity35. *, Barry StroudScepticism, 'Externalism', and the Goal of Epistemology, Epistemology and Psychology36. , W.V. Quine (1908-2000)Epistemology Naturalized37. , Hilary PutnamWhy Reason Can't Be Naturalized38. , Alvin I. GoldmanEpistemic Folkways and Scientific Epistemology39. *, Louis M. AntonyQuine as Feminist: The Radical Import of Naturalized Epistemology, Name Index, Subject Index