What have the great philosophers written about the nature of knowledge? Epistemology: The Key Thinkers tells the story of how our thinking about knowledge has developed, introducing you to some of the problems and forces that have dominated the history of philosophy.
Beginning with Plato, Aristotle, ancient sceptics, and the medievals, before moving to Descartes, the British empiricists, Kant, American pragmatism, and twentieth-century thinkers such as Ludwig Wittgenstein, W. V. O. Quine, Alvin Goldman, and beyond, each chapter guides you through the ideas, contribution, and legacy of a leading philosopher or movement. This second edition includes:
· A new chapter covering medieval epistemology
· Extended guides to further reading and future directions for epistemology
The final chapter looks to the future, highlighting some of the very latest debates that energise philosophical writing today about knowledge and how we know what we know.
Edited by:
Professor Stephen Hetherington
Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: 2nd edition
Dimensions:
Height: 216mm,
Width: 138mm,
Weight: 372g
ISBN: 9781350085312
ISBN 10: 1350085316
Series: Key Thinkers
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 27 June 2019
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Notes on Contributors 1. Epistemology's Past Here and Now, Stephen Hetherington (University of New South Wales, Australia) 2. Plato's Epistemology, Nicholas D. Smith (Lewis and Clark College, USA) 3. Aristotle on Knowledge, Robert Bolton (Rutgers University, USA) and Alan Code (Stanford University, USA) 4. Ancient Scepticism, Gisela Striker (Harvard University, USA) 5. Medieval Epistemology: Augustine, Aquinas, and Ockham, Charles Bolyard (James Madison University, USA) 6. The Epistemology of Descartes, Desmond M. Clarke (University College, Cork, Ireland) 7. Locke, Berkeley, Hume: Epistemology, P. J. E. Kail (University of Oxford, UK) 8. Kant and Kantian Epistemology, Melissa McBay Merritt (University of New South Wales, Australia) and Markos Valaris (University of New South Wales, Australia) 9. American Pragmatism: Fallibilism and Cognitive Progress, Christopher Hookway (University of Sheffield, UK) 10. Wittgenstein on Knowledge, Paul Snowdon (University College London, UK) 11. Quine, Goldman and Two Ways of Naturalizing Epistemology, Ram Neta (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA) 12. In Gettier's Wake, John Turri (University of Waterloo, Canada) 13. Epistemology's Future Here and Now, Stephen Hetherington (University of New South Wales, Australia) Index
Stephen Hetherington is Professor of Philosophy at the University of New South Wales, in Sydney, Australia. He is also the Editor-in-Chief of the Australasian Journal of Philosophy.
Reviews for Epistemology: The Key Thinkers
Whether read individually or collectively, these essays will be extremely valuable for those seeking a better understanding of primary source material that is often quite dense and, therefore, can be difficult for uninitiated readers to penetrate … [A] worthwhile contribution to the literature, especially for nonspecialists. Summing Up: Recommended. Lower- and upper-division undergraduates; graduate students. * CHOICE * Epistemology has returned, in recent years, to the center of philosophy, bringing with it exciting new developments and a renewed interest in the subject’s history. There is no clearer or more usable overview of this history than Stephen Hetherington’s collection, and this second edition offers new material that brings the work right up to the present moment. -- Robert Pasnau, Professor of Philosophy, University of Colorado Boulder, USA
