The Oxford Handbook of Epistemology
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Description
Epistemology, the theory of knowledge, is at the center of mainstream philosophical efforts. The Oxford Handbook of Epistemology contains nineteen previously unpublished chapters on the theory of knowledge by today's leading figures in the field. These chapters function not only as a survey of key areas but also as original and interesting scholarship on vital topics currently of great interest. Written accessibly for advanced undergraduates, graduate students, and professional philosophers, the Handbook explains the main ideas and problems of contemporary epistemology while avoiding overly technical detail.Contributing to contemporary debates over the analysis, sources, and limits of human knowledge, the Handbook tackles such central topics as the nature of epistemic justification, the Gettier problem, skepticism, epistemic rationality, the internalism-externalism debate, scientific knowledge, a priori knowledge, virtues in epistemology, epistemological duties, epistemology and ethics, mind and knowledge, the role of explanation in knowledge, epistemology in philosophy of religion, and formal problems about knowledge.
Reviews
"This is an extensive collection of well-chosen papers on a wide range of topics in current mainstream epistemology, all of which are written by international experts and published here for the first time. Most papers do not require any specialist knowledge in epistemology, although there are exceptions to this general rule. As my own teaching confirms, this book is ideal as an introductory text for a wide range of graduate students in epistemology, philosophy of science, and the epistemology of ethics."--Erik J. Olsson, Theoria
About the Author(s)
Paul K. Moser is Professor of Philosophy and Chairperson of the Philosophy Department at the Loyola University of Chicago. He is the series editor for Oxford Handbooks in Philosophy.
