Externalism about knowledge is thriving in contemporary epistemology. Nonetheless, externalism is too often caricatured as merely reliabilism, too often reduced to simply externalism about justification, and rarely considered as a cohesive family of related but importantly different views. Externalism About Knowledge addresses all of these issues by bringing new essays from leading externalist epistemologists working on seven different branches of this tradition: process reliabilism, tracking views, safety views, virtue epistemology, proper functionalism, naturalized epistemology, and knowledge first epistemology. This collection highlights their unity, their differences, their interconnections, and their most recent challenges, developments, and extensions.
1: Jack C. Lyons: Methods, Processes, and Knowledge 2: Sanford C. Goldberg: Surprise! A Social Meta-Epistemology for Process Reliabilism 3: Kelly Becker: Sensitivity, Discrimination, and Perspective 4: Sherrilyn Rouch: Knowledge, Evidence, and Naked Statistics 5: Duncan Pritchard: Moderate Knowledge Externalism 6: John Hawthorne, Christina H. Dietz: The Safety Conception of Knowledge 7: Ernest Sosa: Default Assumptions and Pure Thought 8: Berit Bogaard: Virtue Epistemology and Epistemic Responsibility 9: Peter J. Graham: Proper Functionalism and the Organizational Theory of Functions 10: Kenneth Boyce: An Explanationist Defense of Proper Functionalism 11: Andrew Moon: Naturalism, Externalism, and Naturalistic Externalism 12: Louise Antony: How Naturalists can Give Internalists What They Really Want (or Need!) 13: Clayton Littlejohn: Externalism Explained 14: Timothy Williamson: Boghossian, Müller-Lyer, the Parrot, and the Nazi
Luis R. G. Oliveira received his BA from Calvin College and his MA and PhD from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He is now an Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Houston. Professor Oliveira has co-edited two books and published numerous papers in academic journals and book collections on various topics in Epistemology, Philosophy of Religion, and Ethics. He is the director of the international project LATAM Bridges in the Epistemology of Religion.
