Oxford Studies in Epistemology: Volume 3
Oxford Studies in Epistemology is a biennial publicaton which offers a regular snapshot of state-of-the-art work in this important field. Under the guidance of a distinguished editorial board composed of leading philosophers in North America, Europe and Australasia, it publishes exemplary papers in epistemology, broadly construed. Topics within its purview include:

*traditional epistemological questions concerning the nature of belief, justification, and knowledge, the status of scepticism, the nature of the a priori, etc

*new developments in epistemology, including movements such as naturalized epistemology, feminist epistemology, social epistemology, and virtue epistemology, and approaches such as contextualism

*foundational questions in decision-theory

*confirmation theory and other branches of philosophy of science that bear on traditional issues in epistemology

*topics in the philosophy of perception relevant to epistemology

*topics in cognitive science, computer science, developmental, cognitive, and social psychology that bear directly on traditional epistemological questions

*work that examines connections between epistemology and other branches of philosophy, including work on testimony and the ethics of belief

Anyone wanting to understand the latest developments at the leading edge of the discipline can start here.
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Oxford Studies in Epistemology: Volume 3
Oxford Studies in Epistemology is a biennial publicaton which offers a regular snapshot of state-of-the-art work in this important field. Under the guidance of a distinguished editorial board composed of leading philosophers in North America, Europe and Australasia, it publishes exemplary papers in epistemology, broadly construed. Topics within its purview include:

*traditional epistemological questions concerning the nature of belief, justification, and knowledge, the status of scepticism, the nature of the a priori, etc

*new developments in epistemology, including movements such as naturalized epistemology, feminist epistemology, social epistemology, and virtue epistemology, and approaches such as contextualism

*foundational questions in decision-theory

*confirmation theory and other branches of philosophy of science that bear on traditional issues in epistemology

*topics in the philosophy of perception relevant to epistemology

*topics in cognitive science, computer science, developmental, cognitive, and social psychology that bear directly on traditional epistemological questions

*work that examines connections between epistemology and other branches of philosophy, including work on testimony and the ethics of belief

Anyone wanting to understand the latest developments at the leading edge of the discipline can start here.
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Oxford Studies in Epistemology: Volume 3

Oxford Studies in Epistemology: Volume 3

Oxford Studies in Epistemology: Volume 3

Oxford Studies in Epistemology: Volume 3

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Oxford Studies in Epistemology is a biennial publicaton which offers a regular snapshot of state-of-the-art work in this important field. Under the guidance of a distinguished editorial board composed of leading philosophers in North America, Europe and Australasia, it publishes exemplary papers in epistemology, broadly construed. Topics within its purview include:

*traditional epistemological questions concerning the nature of belief, justification, and knowledge, the status of scepticism, the nature of the a priori, etc

*new developments in epistemology, including movements such as naturalized epistemology, feminist epistemology, social epistemology, and virtue epistemology, and approaches such as contextualism

*foundational questions in decision-theory

*confirmation theory and other branches of philosophy of science that bear on traditional issues in epistemology

*topics in the philosophy of perception relevant to epistemology

*topics in cognitive science, computer science, developmental, cognitive, and social psychology that bear directly on traditional epistemological questions

*work that examines connections between epistemology and other branches of philosophy, including work on testimony and the ethics of belief

Anyone wanting to understand the latest developments at the leading edge of the discipline can start here.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780199584093
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication date: 08/13/2010
Series: Oxford Studies in Epistemology , #3
Pages: 346
Product dimensions: 6.10(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Tamar Szabo Gendler is Professor of Philosophy at Yale University

John Hawthorne is Waynflete Professor of Metaphysical Philosophy at the University of Oxford

Table of Contents

1. Putting a Value on Beauty, Rachael Briggs2. Skeptical Success, Troy Cross3. Seeing What You're Doing, John Gibbons4. Unravelling the Tangled Web: Continuity, Internalism, Uniqueness and Self-Locating Belief, Chris Meacham5. Confidence and Coarse-Grained Attitudes, Scott Sturgeon6. There Are No Rational Pairs of Contradictory Beliefs (Whatever Some Philosophers of Language Say), Jonathan Sutton7. Evidential Symmetry and Mushy Credence, Roger WhiteSpecial Theme: Social Epistemology Guest Editor: Alvin Goldman8. Systems-Oriented Social Epistemology, Alvin Goldman9. The Aggregation of Propositional Attitudes: Towards a General Theory, Franz Dietrich & Christian List10. Can There Be Institutional Virtues?, Miranda Fricker11. Selective Trust in Testimony: Children's Evaluation of the Message, the Speaker and the Speech Act, Melissa Koenig12. What Should We Do When We Disagree?, Jennifer Lackey13. Reconsidering Authority: Scientific Expertise, Bounded Rationality, and Epistemic Backtracking, Michael Strevens
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