Knowledge & Inquiry: Readings in Epistemology

This anthology focuses on three areas in the theory of knowledge: epistemic justification; analyses of knowledge and scepticism; and recent developments in epistemology. Each of the three sections includes a brief introduction to the readings, a series of study questions, and a list of suggested readings. Section 1 deals with coherentism, foundationalism, reliabilism, and includes articles by Chisholm, BonJour, Audi, Goldman, and Fumerton. Section 2 deals with the analysis of knowledge and Gettier problems, and a variety of forms and responses to scepticism; it includes articles by Gettier, Conee, Feldman, Putnam, Nagel, and Stroud. Section 3 introduces the reader to recent developments in naturalized, feminist, and social epistemology, and includes articles by Quine, Almeder, Putnam, Anderson, Harding, Longino, Hardwig, Rorty, and Kitcher.

K. Brad Wray is a Professor of Philosophy at the State University of New York, Oswego. He is the author of numerous articles on social epistemology, the realism/anti-realism debate in philosophy of science, and the philosophy of Thomas Kuhn. Wray's book, Kuhn's Evolutionary Social Epistemology, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2011.