What is knowledge?
Some preliminaries
Types of knowledge
Two basic requirements on knowledge : truth and belief
Knowing versus merely getting it right
A brief remark on truth
The value of knowledge
Why care about knowledge?
The instrumental value of true belief
The value of knowledge
The statues of Daedalus
Is some knowledge intrinsically valuable?
Defining knowledge
The problem of the criterion
Methodism and particularism
Knowledge as justifed true belief
Gettier cases
Responding to the gettier cases
Back to the problem of the criterion
The structure of knowledge
Knowledge and justification
The enigmatic nature of justification
Agrippa's trilemma
Infinitism
Coherentism
Foundationalism
Rationality
Rationality, justification, and knowledge
Epistemic rationality and the goal of truth
The goal(s) of epistemic rationality
The (un)importance of epistemic rationality
Rationality and responsibility
Epistemic internalism/externalism
Virtues and faculties
Reliabilism
A gettier problem for reliabilism
Virtue epistemology
Virtue epistemology and the externalism/internalism distinction
Where does knowledge come from?
Perception
The problem of perceptual knowledge
Indirect realism
Idealism
Transcendental idealism
Direct realism
Testimony and memory
The problem of testimonial knowledge
Reductionism
Credulism
The problem of memorial knowledge
A priority and inference
A priori and empirical knowledge
The interdependence of A priori and empirical knowledge
Introspective knowledge
Deduction
Induction
Abduction
The problem of induction
The problem of induction
Responding to the problem of induction
Living with the problem of induction I : falsification
Living with the problem of induction II : pragmatism
A case study : moral knowledge
The problem of moral knowledge
Scepticism about moral facts
Scepticism about moral knowledge
The nature of moral knowledge (I) : classical foundationalism
The nature of moral knowledge (II) : alternative conceptions
Do we know anything at all?
Scepticism about other minds
The problem of other minds
The argument from analogy
A problem for the argument from analogy
Two versions of the problem of other minds
Perceiving someone else's mind
Radical scepticism
The radical sceptical paradox
Scepticism and closure
Mooreanism
Contextualism
Truth and objectivity
Objectivity, anti-realism, and scepticism
Truth as the goal of inquiry
Authenticity and the value of truth
Relativism.
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What is this thing called knowledge? by Duncan Pritchard. ISBN 9780415552981. Published by Routledge in 2010. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
