Human Knowledge : Classical and Contemporary Approaches

Paul K. Moser

ISBN 10: 0195149661 / ISBN 13: 9780195149661

Editore: Oxford University Press, 2002

nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - Offering a unique and wide-ranging examination of the theory of knowledge, this comprehensive collection deftly blends readings from the foremost classical sources with the work of important contemporary philosophical thinkers. Formative voices of epistemology from ancient Greek philosophy, medieval philosophy, early modern philosophy, classical pragmatism, and contemporary analytic philosophy are amply represented. Organized chronologically and thematically,Human Knowledge, 3/e presents an impressive collection of essays from Plato, Aristotle, Sextus Empiricus, Augustine, Aquinas, Descartes, Locke, Leibniz, Berkeley, Hume, Kant, James, Russell, Wittgenstein, Carnap, Quine, Gettier, Kripke, and many others. Featuring nontechnical selections that are accessibleto undergraduates, this text is ideal for any course that deals with the major philosophical approaches to human knowledge. With section overviews by the editors-including a substantial general introduction-and helpful, up-to-date bibliographies, this definitive work offers an exceptional introduction to our ancient struggle with the shape of our own intellectual experience. The third edition adds selections by Thomas Reid, Richard Rorty, David B. Annis, Richard Feldman and Earl Conee, ErnestSosa, Barry Stroud, and Louis M. Antony. Codice articolo 9780195149661

Riassunto:

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.

Contenuti:

• *=New to the third edition
• General Introduction: Human Knowledge―Its Nature, Sources, and Limits
• PART I. CLASSICAL SOURCES
• Greek and Medieval Sources:
• 1: Plato:
• Meno; Phaedo; Republic; Theaetetus
• 2: Aristotle:
• Posterior Analytics; De Anima
• 3: Sextus Empiricus:
• Outlines of Pyrrhonism
• 4: Augustine:
• Contra Academicos; De Civitas Dei
• 5: Thomas Aquinas:
• Summa Theologiae
• Early Modern Sources:
• 6: René Descartes:
• Meditations on First Philosophy
• 7: John Locke:
• An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
• 8: Gottfried Leibniz:
• Introduction to New Essays on the Human Understanding
• 9: George Berkeley:
• A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge
• 10: David Hume:
• An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
• *11: Thomas Reid:
• An Inquiry into the Human Mind
• 12: Immanuel Kant:
• Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics
• PART II. CONTEMPORARY SOURCES
• Pragmatism and Empiricism:
• 13: William James:
• The Will to Believe
• 14: Bertrand Russell:
• Appearance, Reality, and Knowledge By Acquaintance
• 15: A.J. Ayer:
• Verification and Philosophy
• 16: Clarence Irving Lewis:
• The Pragmatic Element in Knowledge
• 17: Rudolf Carnap:
• Empiricism, Semantics, and Ontology
• 18: W.V. Quine:
• 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:
• A Pragmatic Conception of the A Priori
• 24: Roderick M. Chisholm:
• 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:
• Proof of an External World
• 32: Ludwig Wittgenstein:
• 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:
• 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:

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Titolo: Human Knowledge : Classical and Contemporary...
Casa editrice: Oxford University Press
Data di pubblicazione: 2002
Legatura: Taschenbuch
Condizione: Neu
Edizione: terza edizione