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.
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.
*=New to the third edition
Paul K. Moser and Arnold vander Nat: General Introduction: Human
Knowledge--Its Nature, Sources, and Limits
PART I. CLASSICAL SOURCES
Greek and Medieval Sources:
1: Plato (c. 427-c.347 B.C.):
Meno; Phaedo; Republic; Theaetetus
2: Aristotle (384-322 B.C.):
Posterior Analytics; De Anima
3: Sextus Empiricus (A.D. 175?-225?):
Outlines of Pyrrhonism
4: Augustine (A.D. 354-430):
Contra Academicos; De Civitas Dei
5: Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274):
Summa Theologiae
Early Modern Sources:
6: René Descartes (1596-1650):
Meditations on First Philosophy
7: John Locke (1632-1704):
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
8: Gottfried Leibniz (1646-1716):
Introduction to New Essays on the Human Understanding
9: George Berkeley (1685-1753):
A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge
10: David Hume (1711-1776):
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
*11: Thomas Reid (1710-1796):
Inquiry into the Human Mind
12: Immanuel Kant (1724-1804):
Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics
PART II. CONTEMPORARY SOURCES
Pragmatism and Empiricism:
13: William James (1842-1910):
The Will to Believe
14: Bertrand Russell (1872-1970):
Appearance, Reality, and Knowledge By Acquaintance
15: A.J. Ayer (1910-1989):
Verification and Philosophy
16: Clarence Irving Lewis (1883-1965):
The Pragmatic Element in Knowledge
17: Rudolf Carnap (1891-1970):
Empiricism, Semantics, and Ontology
18: W.V. Quine (1908-2000):
Two Dogmas of Empiricism
*19: Richard Rorty:
Pragmatism, Relativism, and Irrationalism
The Analysis of Knowledge:
20: Edmund Gettier:
Is Justified True Belief Knowledge?
21: Richard Feldman:
An Alleged Defect in Gettier Counter-Examples
22: John Pollock:
The Gettier Problem
A Priori Knowledge:
23: Clarence Irving Lewis (1883-1965):
A Pragmatic Conception of the A Priori
24: Roderick M. Chisholm (1916-1999):
The Truths of Reason
25: Saul A. Kripke:
A Priori Knowledge, Necessity, and Contingency
Justified Belief:
26: William P. Alston:
Concepts of Epistemic Justification
27: Ernest Sosa:
The Raft and the Pyramid: Coherence versus Foundations in the
Theory of Knowledge
*28: David B. Annis:
A Contextualist Theory of Epistemic Justification
*29: Richard Feldman and Earl Conee:
Evidentialism
30: Stephen Stich:
Reflective Equilibrium, Analytic Epistemology, and the Problem of
Cognitive Diversity
Skepticism:
31: G. E. Moore (1873-1958):
Proof of an External World
32: Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951):
Cause and Effect: Intuitive Awareness
33: P.F. Strawson:
Skepticism, Naturalism, and Transcendental Arguments
*34: Ernest Sosa:
Philosophical Scepticism and Epistemic Circularity
*35: Barry Stroud:
Scepticism, 'Externalism', and the Goal of Epistemology
Epistemology and Psychology:
36: W.V. Quine (1908-2000):
Epistemology Naturalized
37: Hilary Putnam:
Why Reason Can't Be Naturalized
38: Alvin I. Goldman:
Epistemic Folkways and Scientific Epistemology
*39: Louis M. Antony:
Quine as Feminist: The Radical Import of Naturalized
Epistemology
Name Index:
Subject Index:
"A well-chosen collection of both classical and contemporary texts from the Western tradition in philosophy. Excellent general introduction and extremely helpful prefaces for the different parts."--Angelika Soldan, University of Texas at Brownsville
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