Human Knowledge: Classical and Contemporary Approaches

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*=NEW TO THE THIRD EDITION General Introduction: Human Knowledge-Its Nature, Sources, and Limits PART I. CLASSICAL SOURCES Meno Phaedo Republic Theaetetus Posterior Analytics De Anima Outlines of Pyrrhonism Contra Academicos De Civitas Dei Summa Theologiae Meditations on First Philosophy An Essay Concerning Human Understanding Introduction to New Essays on the Human Understanding A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding 11. * An Inquiry into the Human Mind Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics PART II. CONTEMPORARY SOURCES The Will to Believe Appearance, Reality, and Knowledge By Acquaintance Verification and Philosophy The Pragmatic Element in Knowledge Empiricism, Semantics, and Ontology Two Dogmas of Empiricism 19. * Pragmatism, Relativism, and Irrationalism Is Justified True Belief Knowledge? An Alleged Defect in Gettier Counter-Examples The Gettier Problem A Pragmatic Conception of the A Priori The Truths of Reason A Priori Knowledge, Necessity, and Contingency Concepts of Epistemic Justification The Raft and the Pyramid: Coherence versus Foundations in the Theory of Knowledge 28. * A Contextualist Theory of Epistemic Justification 29. * Evidentialism Reflective Equilibrium, Analytic Epistemology, and the Problem of Cognitive Diversity Proof of an External World Cause and Effect: Intuitive Awareness Skepticism, Naturalism, and Transcendental Arguments 34. * Philosophical Scepticism and Epistemic Circularity 35. * Scepticism, 'Externalism', and the Goal of Epistemology Epistemology Naturalized Why Reason Can't Be Naturalized Epistemic Folkways and Scientific Epistemology 39. * Quine as Feminist: The Radical Import of Naturalized Epistemology