Handbook of Epistemology [click on title for bibliographic details from amazon.com]
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Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, Hardbound, ISBN 1-4020-1985-8 , March 2004, 1064 pp.
EUR 350.00 / USD 385.00 / GBP 242.00
edited by
Illka Niiniluoto (Dept. of Philosophy, University of Helsinki, Finland)
Matti Sintonen (University of Tampere, Finland)
Jan Wolenski (Institute of Philosophy, Jagiellonian University, Cracow, Poland)
CONTENTS:
Foreword. Contributors. Introduction. The History of Epistemology; J. Wolenski.
I: Sources of Knowledge and Belief. 1. Perception and Consciousness; R. Audi. 2. Testimony: Knowing through Being Told; E. Fricker. 3. Reason and Rationality; R. Samuels, S. Stich, L. Faucher.
II: Knowledge Acquisition. 4. Learning Theory and Epistemology; K. Kelly. 5. Scientific Discovery; M. Sintonen, M. Kiikeri. 6. Belief Revision from an Epistemological Point of View; S.O. Hanssen.
III: Truth and Justification. 7. The Analysis of Knowing; R. Shope. 8. Theories of Truth; M. David. 9. Realism; S. Haack. 10. Antirealism and the Role of Truth; G. Sundholm. 11. Theories of Justification; M. Lammenranta. 12. Belief and Acceptance; P. Weirich. 13. Induction; I. Niiniluoto.
IV: Epistemology and Areas of Knowledge. 14. Scientific Knowledge; P. Humphreys. 15. Mathematical Knowledge; R. Murawski. 16. Knowledge in the Humanities and Social Sciences; J. Margolis. 17. Self-Knowledge; T. Stoneham. 18. The Epistemology of Religious Belief; K. Yandell. 19. Knowledge and Semantic Competence; K. Johnson.
V: Special Topics. 20. Naturalism and Evolutionary Epistemologies; M. Bradie. 21. Relativism; H. Siegel. 22. Analytic vs. Synthetic and A Priori vs. A Posteriori; J. Wolenski. 23. Epistemology and Cognitive Science; F. Schmitt. 24. Sociology of Scientific Knowledge; D. Bloor. 25. Epistemic Logic; W. Lenzen. 26. Knowledge and Art; D. Novitz. 27. Feminist Epistemology; K. Lennon.
Index of Names. Subject Index.