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Tables of Contents for What Can We Know
Chapter/Section Title
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Preface
xi
What Can We Know?
1
25
Knowledge and Its Types
1
2
What Is Knowledge?
3
1
Theories of Truth
4
1
The Correspondence Theory of Truth
4
3
The Coherence Theory of Truth
7
1
The Pragmatic Theory of Truth
8
4
Knowledge and Belief
12
2
Knowledge and Justification
14
1
Can We Know Anything at All?
15
1
How Do We Obtain Knowledge?
16
2
Types of Knowledge
18
2
Book Outline
20
2
Questions for Discussion
22
1
Notes
23
1
For Further Reading
24
2
The Skeptical Tradition
26
11
The Ancient School of Skepticism
26
6
Ancient Skepticism: Academics and Pyrrhonians
32
2
Questions for Discussion
34
1
Notes
35
1
For Further Reading
36
1
Modern Skepticism
37
27
The Challenge of Skepticism
37
12
Do We Have Knowledge of the External World?
49
2
Tracking Truth
51
2
The Relevant Alternatives Model
53
3
Moore's Defense of Common Sense
56
3
Summary
59
1
Questions for Discussion
60
2
Notes
62
1
For Further Reading
63
1
Perception: Our Knowledge of the External World
64
16
Appearance and Reality
64
2
Theories of Perception
66
1
Locke's Representationalism
67
3
Berkeley's Idealist Attack on Representationalism
70
3
Phenomenalism
73
4
Summary
77
1
Questions for Discussion
77
1
Notes
78
1
For Further Reading
78
2
What Is Knowledge? An Analysis
80
19
Tripartite Analysis
81
2
Quartet Solutions
83
6
Other Attempts to Solve the Gettier Problem
89
6
Summary
95
1
Questions for Discussion
96
1
Notes
97
1
For Further Reading
97
2
Theories of Justification (I): Foundationalism
99
16
Classical Foundationalism
99
5
The Regress Problem
104
3
A Critique of Foundationalism
107
4
Summary
111
1
Questions for Discussion
112
1
Notes
113
1
For Further Reading
114
1
Theories of Justification (II): Coherentism and Modest Foundationalism
115
19
Varieties of Coherentism
116
2
Objections to Coherentism
118
2
Some Coherentist Replies to Criticisms
120
4
Additional Problems with Coherentism
124
4
Moderate Foundationalism
128
2
Nondoxastic Foundationalism and the Given
130
1
Summary
130
2
Questions for Discussion
132
1
Notes
132
1
For Further Reading
133
1
Theories of Justification (III): Internalism and Externalism
134
30
Internalism
136
7
Reliabilism
143
10
Externalist-Internalist Reconciliation?
153
5
Summary
158
1
Questions for Discussion
159
2
Notes
161
2
For Further Reading
163
1
The New Externalism: The Theory of Warrant and Proper Function
164
21
Rejection of Internalism
164
3
The New Externalism
167
5
A Critique of Plantinga's New Externalism
172
10
Summary
182
1
Questions for Discussion
182
1
Notes
183
1
For Further Reading
184
1
Naturalized Epistemology
185
13
Quine's Naturalism
185
9
Summary
194
1
Questions for Discussion
195
1
Notes
196
1
For Further Reading
197
1
Virtue Epistemology
198
7
Virture Utilitarianism
198
1
Virtue Reliabilism
199
1
Virtue Perspectivism
200
1
Problems with Virtue Epistemology
201
2
Questions for Discussion
203
1
Notes
203
1
For Further Reading
204
1
A Priori Knowledge
205
23
Introduction: The Historical Debate
205
7
Is There A Priori Knowledge?
212
2
The A Priori as Analytic Truth
214
4
Is There Synthetic A Priori Knowledge?
218
3
Innate Ideas (Again)
221
3
Questions for Discussion
224
1
Notes
225
1
For Further Reading
226
2
Memory
228
22
Memory as a Way of Knowing
230
8
What Is Remembering?
238
9
Questions for Discussion
247
1
Notes
248
1
For Further Reading
249
1
Other Minds
250
14
The Analogical Argument
250
2
Behaviorist Arguments
252
5
The Evolution Argument
257
4
Questions for Discussion
261
1
Notes
262
1
For Further Reading
262
2
The Nature of Belief
264
16
Hume's Perplexity
264
5
The Fall of Occurrentism and the Rise of Dispositional Theories of Belief
269
4
The Analysis of Belief
273
5
Questions for Discussion
278
1
Notes
278
1
For Further Reading
279
1
Belief and Will
280
21
Introduction: Varieties of Volitionalism
281
1
Direct Descriptive Volitionalism
282
1
The Phenomenological Argument Against Direct Descriptive Volitionalism
283
9
Cartesia
292
1
The Logic of Belief Argument Against Volitionalism
293
5
Questions for Discussion
298
1
Notes
298
2
For Further Reading
300
1
The Ethics of Belief
301
17
Indirect Volitionalism
301
1
The Libertarian View of Doxastic Responsibility
302
4
A Critique of Meiland's Liberatarianism
306
9
Questions for Discussion
315
1
Notes
316
1
For Further Reading
316
2
Belief and Acceptance
318
7
Questions for Discussion
323
1
Notes
324
1
For Further Reading
324
1
Epistemology and Religious Belief
325
17
The Debate over Faith and Reason
326
2
Rationality and Conceptual Frameworks
328
2
Does Rationality Imply a Neutrality That Is Incompatible with Religious Faith?
330
2
Toward a Theory of Rationality
332
6
Conclusion
338
1
Questions for Discussion
339
1
Notes
340
1
For Further Reading
341
1
Glossary
342
7
Index
349