Knowledge In Contemporary Philosophy

Cover
 Half Title
 Series
 Title
 Copyright
 Contents
 List of Contributors
 General Editor's Preface
 Introduction: Theorizing about Theorizing about Knowledge
 Notes
 References
 1 Pragmatism and Epistemology
 1. Introduction
 2. The classical pragmatists: Peirce
 3. The classical pragmatists: James
 4. The classical pragmatists: Dewey
 5. Neopragmatism: knowledge and social entitlement
 6. Neopragmatism: pragmatic encroachment
 Notes
 References
 2 On Our Epistemological Debt to Moore and Russell
 1. Introduction: the view from here 2. Acknowledging a Russellian milestone (or two, or three)3. Moore's Paradox
 4. Mooreanism and scepticism
 5. Concluding remarks: reverence renewed?
 Notes
 References
 3 What Knowledge Is Not: Reflections on Some Uses of the Verb 'To Know'
 1. Introduction
 2. The relevance of expressions
 3. Reflections on first-person and third-person (singular) uses of 'to know', 'to be certain', and 'to believe'
 4. Scepticism
 5. Conclusion
 Notes
 References
 4 Naturalistic Descriptions of Knowledge
 1. Introduction
 2. What is naturalistic epistemology?
 2.1 Quine's impact 2.2 Forms of naturalistic epistemology2.3 Waves of naturalistic epistemology
 3. The first wave of naturalistic epistemology: programmatic debates
 3.1 The intuition debate
 3.2 The normativity debate
 4. The second wave of naturalistic epistemology: building on empirical research
 4.1 Knowledge as a natural kind
 4.2 Memory as a source of knowledge
 5. A third wave of naturalistic epistemology? Conducting empirical research
 5.1 Experimental philosophy as experimental epistemology
 5.2 Experimental psychology as experimental epistemology
 6. Conclusion
 References 5 Knowing the Unobservable: Confirmation and Theoretical Virtues1. Introduction
 2. Foundationalist conceptions of scientific knowledge
 3. Holistic confirmation
 4. Theoretical virtues
 5. Probabilistic confirmation
 6. Prior probabilities and plausibility
 7. Concluding thoughts
 Notes
 References
 6 Social Knowledge and Social Norms
 1. Introduction
 2. Justification versus knowledge (the anti-luck condition)
 3. What is testimony?
 4. The possibility of knowledge transmission
 5. Testimonial justification: reductionism versus anti-reductionism
 6. Counterexamples to transmission 7. A safe-basis account of testimonial knowledge8. The reliability of testimony and social norms
 Notes
 References
 7 Knowledge-How and Perceptual Learning
 1. Introduction
 2. Belief-based knowledge-how
 3. Perceptual and proprioceptive learning
 4. Conclusion
 Notes
 References
 8 Self-Knowledge
 1. Introduction
 2. A rough consensus, and a challenge
 3. Assessing the case for scepticism
 3.1 Knowledge of the attitudes
 3.2 Knowledge of conscious experience
 3.3 Knowledge of causes and dispositions
 4. Conclusion
 Notes
 References
 9 Knowledge as Contextual