Epistemic Justification : Internalism vs. Externalism, Foundations vs. Virtues

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Pub. Date: 2003-04-22
Publisher(s): Wiley-Blackwell
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Summary

In this text, the authors debate contemporary issues arising out of the choice between internalism and externalism in epistemology.

Author Biography

Laurence BonJour is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Washington, where he teaches epistemology, history of modern philosophy, metaphysics, philosophy of law, and political philosophy. He is the author of three books: The Structure of Empirical Knowledge (1985), In Defense of Pure Reason (1998), and Epistemology: Classic Problems and Contemporary Responses (2002).

Ernest Sosa is Professor of Philosophy at Brown University and Distinguished Visiting Professor at Rutgers University every spring term. He has written widely on epistemology and is author of Knowledge in Perspective (1991). Sosa and His Critics, edited by John Greco, is forthcoming in the Blackwell series, Philosophers and Their Critics.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments vii
Introduction 1(2)
I A Version of Internalist Foundationalism
3(94)
Laurence Bonjour
The Regress Problem and Foundationalism
5(19)
Externalist Accounts of Justification
24(18)
In Search of Coherentism
42(18)
Back to Foundationalism
60(17)
The Conceptualization of Sensory Experience and the Problem of the External World
77(20)
II Beyond Internal Foundations to External Virtues
97(74)
Ernest Sosa
Knowledge and Justification
99(20)
Does Knowledge Have Foundations?
119(22)
Skepticism and the Internal/External Divide
141(15)
A Virtue Epistemology
156(15)
Replies
171(58)
Reply to Sosa
173(28)
Reply to Bonjour
201(28)
Bibliography 229(4)
Index 233

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