The Oxford Handbook of Epistemology contains nineteen previously unpublished chapters by today’s leading figures in the field. These chapters function not only as a survey of key areas, but as original scholarship on a range of vital topics. Written accessibly for advanced undergraduates, graduate students, and professional philosophers, the Handbook explains the main ideas and problems of contemporary epistemology while avoiding overly technical detail. “This is an extensive collection of well-chosen papers on a wide range of topics in current mainstream epistemology, all of which are written by international experts and published here for the first time. Most papers do not require any specialist knowledge in epistemology, although there are exceptions to this general rule. As my own teaching confirms, this book is ideal as an introductory text for a wide range of graduate students in epistemology, philosophy of science, and the epistemology of ethics.” ~ Erik J. Olsson, Theoria

Table of Contents

• • Contributors
  • Introduction    3
  • 1    Conditions and Analyses of Knowing    25
  • 2    The Sources of Knowledge    71
  • 3    A Priori Knowledge    95
  • 4    The Sciences and Epistemology    144
  • 5    Conceptual Diversity in Epistemology    177
  • 6    Theories of Justification    204
  • 7    Internalism and Externalism    234
  • 8    Tracking, Competence, and Knowledge    264
  • 9    Virtues in Epistemology    287
  • 10    Mind and Knowledge    316
  • 11    Skepticism    336
  • 12    Epistemological Duties    362
  • 13    Scientific Knowledge    385
  • 14    Explanation and Epistemology    408
  • 15    Decision Theory and Epistemology    434
  • 16    Embodiment and Epistemology    463
  • 17    Epistemology and Ethics    479
  • 18    Epistemology in Philosophy of Religion    513
  • 19    Formal Problems about Knowledge    539
  • 20    Bibliography on Epistemology    569
  • Index    587