Notes on contributors -- Epistemology's past here and now / Stephen Hetherington -- Plato's epistemology / Nicholas D. Smith -- Aristotle on knowledge / Robert Bolton and Alan Code -- Ancient scepticism / Gisela Striker -- Medieval epistemology: Augustine, Aquinas, and Ockham / Charles Bolyard -- The epistemology of Descartes / Desmond M. Clarke -- Locke, Berkeley, Hume: epistemology / P.J.E. Kail -- Kant and Kantian epistemology / Melissa McBay Merritt and Markos Valaris -- American pragmatism: fallibilism and cognitive progress / Christopher Hookway -- Wittgenstein on knowledge / Paul Snowdon -- Quine, Goldman, and two ways of naturalizing epistemology / Ram Neta -- In Gettier's wake / John Turri -- Epistemology's future here and now / Stephen Hetherington -- Index.
Summary:
What have the great philosophers written about the nature of knowledge? Epistemology: The Key Thinkers tells the story of how our thinking about knowledge has developed, introducing you to some of the problems and forces that have dominated the history of philosophy. Beginning with Plato, Aristotle, ancient sceptics, and the medievals, before moving to Descartes, the British empiricists, Kant, American pragmatism, and twentieth-century thinkers such as Ludwig Wittgenstein, W. V. O. Quine, Alvin Goldman, and beyond, each chapter guides you through the ideas, contribution, and legacy of a leading philosopher or movement.
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