Reliabilism and Contemporary Epistemology
Essays
ISBN13: 9780199812875ISBN10: 019981287X
Hardback,
336 pages
Feb 2012,
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$74.00 (06)Description
This is a collection of very recent essays by the leading proponent of process reliabilism, explaining its relation to rival and/or neighboring theories including evidentialism, other forms of reliabilism, and virtue epistemology. It addresses other prominent themes in contemporary epistemology, such as the internalism/externalism debate, the epistemological upshots of experimental challenges to intuitional methodology, the source of epistemic value, and social epistemology. The Introduction addresses late-breaking responses to ongoing exchanges with friends, rivals, and critics of reliabilism.Features
- The essays in this volume constitute the most intensive stretch of work on epistemology during Alvin Goldman's career
- The author provides an Introduction that draws out unifying themes among the essays
- Offers most systematic overviews of social epistemology
- Represents a new form of epistemic relativism that is compatible with epistemic objectivism
- Explains why intuitional methodology is compatible with philosophical naturalism
- Provides a novel synthesis of reliabilism and evidentialism
About the Author(s)
Alvin Goldman, Board of Governors Professor at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, has been one of the leading epistemologists of the last 40 years, championing the causal theory of knowing, process reliabilism, epistemic externalism, and social epistemology. He is a leading proponent of the simulation theory of mindreading and a major contributor to the metaphysics of action. He has long practiced interdisciplinary philosophy, with links to cognitive science, law, political theory, and economics.
