Epistemology
Introduction
Much epistemological work in the Western tradition focuses on the nature of knowledge—its sources, significance, and scope. But justified belief, epistemic virtue and responsibility, understanding, and evidence are epistemologically important, and not just because of the role they play in knowledge. The readings in this section represent the most recent influential work, as of the first decade of the 21st century, on the range of issues covered by General Epistemology.
Textbooks
Whether one is a professor looking to design a course in epistemology or a student looking to see what the discipline has to offer, the quickest way to do so can be with a textbook. Most textbooks do not get into all the possible details on the various objections and moves that are made within each epistemological subdiscipline; however, textbooks can provide a helpful overview of the epistemological terrain. And some upper-level textbooks can even advance the field in their own right.
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- A Priori Knowledge
- Action
- Aesthetics, Analytic Approaches to
- Aesthetics, Continental
- Aesthetics, History of
- Analytic/Synthetic Distinction
- Animal Rights
- Anthropic Principle, The
- Applied Ethics
- Assertion
- Atheism
- Beauty
- Belief
- Berkeley, George
- British Idealism
- Buddhist Philosophy
- Causation
- Chemistry, Philosophy of
- Chinese Philosophy
- Cognitive Science, Philosophy of
- Coherentism
- Color
- Computational Science
- Conditionals
- Confirmation
- Connectionism
- Consciousness
- Consequentialism, Ethical
- Constructive Empiricism
- Contemporary African Philosophy
- Contextualism
- Davidson, Donald
- Death
- Descartes, René
- Descriptions
- Disagreement, Epistemology of
- Disjunctivism
- Dispositions
- Emotion
- Epistemic Justification
- Epistemic Philosophy of Logic
- Epistemology
- Ethical Intuitionism
- Evidence
- Evidential Support Relation In Epistemology, The
- Experimental Philosophy
- Feminist Philosophy
- Feyerabend, Paul
- Fiction
- Fictionalism
- Fictionalism in the Philosophy of Mathematics
- Film, Philosophy of
- Formal Epistemology
- Free Will
- God, Arguments for the Existence of
- God, The Existence and Attributes of
- Heaven and Hell
- Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich: Philosophy of History
- Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich: Philosophy of Politics
- Heidegger, Martin: Early Works
- Hermeneutics
- History, Philosophy of
- Human Rights
- Hume, David: Moral and Political Philosophy
- Imagination
- Impossible Worlds
- Incommensurability in Science
- Indian Philosophy
- Intuitions
- Kant, Immanuel: Theoretical Philosophy
- Knowledge
- Language of Thought
- Language, Philosophy of
- Laws of Nature
- Legal Positivism
- Liberty
- Locke, John
- Lottery and Preface Paradoxes, The
- Mathematical Explanation
- Mathematics, Philosophy of
- Meaning of Life, The
- Medically Assisted Dying
- Medieval Philosophy
- Memory
- Metaethics
- Metaphilosophy
- Metaphysics, Contemporary
- Mind, Metaphysics of
- Modal Epistemology
- Modality
- Modularity
- Moral Responsibility
- Music, Analytic Philosophy of
- Nietzsche, Friedrich
- Nonexistent Objects
- Normative Ethics
- Normative Foundations, Philosophy of Law:
- Other Minds
- Peirce, Charles Sanders
- Perception, The Problem of
- Personal Identity
- Phenomenology
- Plato
- Political Obligation
- Political Philosophy
- Practical Reason
- Pragmatics
- Pragmatism
- Psychology, Philosophy of
- Punishment
- Qualia
- Quietism
- Quine, W.V.O.
- Race
- Rationality
- Realism and Anti-Realism
- Reference, Theory of
- Reid, Thomas
- Relativism
- Religion, Philosophy of
- Religious Belief, Epistemology of
- Rights
- Rule-Following
- Science and Religion
- Scientific Progress
- Scientific Revolutions
- Self-Knowledge
- Sellars, Wilfrid
- Semantic Externalism
- Semantic Minimalism
- Skepticism, Contemporary
- Skepticism, History of
- Social Epistemology
- Space and Time
- Supervenience
- Technology, Philosophy of
- Testimony, Epistemology of
- Thought Experiments
- Time and Tense
- Truth
- Two-Dimensional Semantics
- Understanding
- Vagueness
- Virtue Epistemology
- War
- Wisdom
- Wittgenstein, Ludwig: Early Works
- Wittgenstein, Ludwig: Later Works
- Wittgenstein, Ludwig: Middle Works