Table of Contents
1 Cover
6 Introduction I.1 What Is Epistemology? I.2 Overview of the Book's Themes Free Internet Resources
7 1 THE REGRESS PROBLEM 1.1 Introduction: A Thought Experiment 1.2 Infinitism and the Regress Problem 1.3 Objections to Infinitism 1.4 Coherentism 1.5 Foundationalism 1.6 Objections to Foundationalism 1.7 Conclusion Free Internet Resources
8 2 PERCEPTION 2.1 Introduction 2.2 How to Stop an Epistemic Regress 2.3 How to Talk about Experience 2.4 Are We Ever Directly Aware of External Objects? 2.5 Against Naïve Realism 2.6 Evaluating Indirect Realism 2.7 The Return of Direct Realism 2.8 Does Experience Provide Us with Reasons to Believe? 2.9 Conclusion: Choosing a View Free Internet Resources
9 3 THE A PRIORI 3.1 Introduction 3.2 Negative Characterizations of A Priori Justification 3.3 In What Sense Is A Priori Justification “Independent” of Experience? 3.4 Positive Characterizations of A Priori Justification 3.5 Bealer on the A Priori 3.6 BonJour on the A Priori 3.7 Is There A Priori Justification? 3.8 Quine's Attack on the Analytic–Synthetic Distinction and Its Significance 3.9 Against the Reliability of Intuitions 3.10 Rationalism and Skepticism Free Internet Resources
10 4 INFERENCE 4.1 Introduction 4.2 Inference and the Scope of our Knowledge 4.3 The Problem of Induction 4.4 Solving the Problem 4.5 A Pragmatic Justification 4.6 No Justification? No Problem! 4.7 Deductive Reasoning and Closure 4.8 Against Closure 4.9 In Defense of Closure 4.10 Conclusion 4.A Appendix: When Does a Body of Evidence Justify Belief? Free Internet Resources
11 5 ON KNOWING THE TRUTH 5.1 Introduction 5.2 A Simple View 5.3 Gettier's Cases 5.4 Causation? 5.5 Modal Approaches 5.6 Ability 5.7 What If There Is No Analysis? 5.8 Conclusion Free Internet Resources
12 6 MEMORY 6.1 Introduction 6.2 Awareness of the Past 6.3 Memory and Knowledge 6.4 Memory and the Justification of Belief 6.5 Justifying Our Reliance on Memory 6.6 The Problem of Easy Knowledge 6.7 Conclusion Free Internet Resources
13 7 TESTIMONY 7.1 Introduction 7.2 Reductionism and Non‐Reductionism