This volume includes seventeen articles on the central topics of epistemology, including scepticism, realism, rationality, moral epistemology and social epistemology. Each essay incorporates background material to clarify the history and logic of the topic. In the BLACKWELL COMPANIONS TO PHILOSOPHY series.

Contributors vii Preface viii Introduction: What is Epistemology? John Greco 1 Part I Traditional Problems Of Epistemology 33 1 Skepticism Michael Williams 35 2 Realism, Objectivity, and Skepticism Paul K. Moser 70 3 What is Knowledge? Linda Zagzebski 92 4 The Dialectic of Foundationalism and Coherentism Laurence BonJour 117 Part II The Nature Of Epistemic Evaluation 143 5 Skepticism and the Internal/External Divide Ernest Sosa 145 6 In Defense of a Naturalized Epistemology Hilary Kornblith 158 7 Methodological Naturalism in Epistemology Richard Feldman 170 8 Contextualism: An Explanation and Defense Keith DeRose 187 9 Rationality Keith Lehrer 206 Part III Varieties Of Knowledge 221 10 Perceptual Knowledge William Alston 223 11 The A Priori George Bealer 243 12 Moral Knowledge and Ethical Pluralism Robert Audi 271 13 Epistemology of Religion Nicholas Wolterstorff 303 Part IV New Directions 325 14 Feminist Epistemology Helen E. Longino 327 15 Social Epistemology Frederick Schmitt 354 16 Procedural Epistemology – At the Interface of Philosophy and AI John L. Pollock 383 17 Hermeneutics as Epistemology Merold Westphal 415 Select Bibliography of Epistemology by Topic 436 Index 451

Written by an international assembly of leading philosophers, this volume includes seventeen newly-commissioned full-length survey articles on the central topics of epistemology. Topics include: Skepticism, Realism, Contextualism, Moral Epistemology, Religious Epistemology, Internalism and Externalism, Naturalized Epistemology, Rationality, Foundationalism and Coherentism, Feminist Epistemology, Post-Modernism and Epistemology on the Continent, and Social Epistemology. Each essay in the volume incorporates background material serving to clarify the history and logic of the relevant topic; as well as new material by a leading author in the field. Accordingly, the volume will be a valuable resource for a broad range of scholars and students, including experts in epistemology.

Table of Contents. Contributors. Preface. Introduction: What is Epistemology? John Greco (Fordham University). Part I: Traditional Problems of Epistemology. Part II: The Nature of Epistemic Evaluation. Part III: Varieties of Knowledge. Part IV: New Directions. Select Bibliography by Topic. Index.