1st Edition

Knowledge Puzzles An Introduction To Epistemology

By Stephen Cade Hetherington Copyright 1996
210 Pages
by Routledge

224 Pages
by Routledge

224 Pages
by Routledge

This book presents many of epistemology's main ideas in a way that will help students understand the central primary writings in epistemology, providing puzzles and questions about epistemological theory.

Preface -- Introducing Epistemology -- Truth -- Belief -- Justification -- The Gettier Problem -- Surface Reliability -- Underlying Reliability -- Causality -- Defeasibility -- Social Defeasibility -- False Evidence -- Induction -- A Priori Knowledge -- Externalism -- Internalism -- Vagueness -- Fallibilism -- Infallibility Skepticism -- External World Skepticism -- Inductive Skepticism -- Rule Skepticism -- Regress Skepticism -- Foundationalism -- Contextualism -- Coherentism -- Pyrrhonian Skepticism -- Questioning Epistemology -- About the Book and Author

Biography

Stephen Cade Hetherington