Intellectual assurance : essays on traditional epistemic internalism / edited by Brett Coppenger and Michael Bergmann.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Coppenger, Brett, editor.

Bergmann, Michael, 1964- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Internalism (Theory of knowledge).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 261 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Essays on traditional epistemic internalism

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Here, twelve essays by prominent contemporary epistemologists provide a careful examination and critical evaluation of traditional epistemic internalism. They probe many objections to traditional internalism, and focus on three key topics: non-inferentially justified belief, inferentially justified belief, and the best response to skepticism.

Contents:

Notes on contributors

Acknowledgments. Traditional internalism: an introduction / Brett Coppenger. Chapter abstracts. Part 1 Traditional internalism and non-inferentially justified belief : Direct acquaintance : Confrontation foundationalism / Peter Markie

Acquaintance and fallible non-inferential justification / Chris Tucker

Foundational justification, meta-justification, and Fumertonian acquaintance / Matthias Setup. Perceptual belief : Staying indoors: how phenomenal dogmatism solves the skeptical problem without going externalist / Berit Brogaard

Experience and evidence abridged / Susanna Schellenberg. Part 2 Traditional internalism and inferentially justified belief : Principles of inferential justification / Trent Dougherty

Inferential appearances / Michael Huemer. Part 3 Traditional internalism and skepticism : Responding to the skeptic : The costs of demon-proof justification/ Sanford C. Goldberg

Acquaintance and skepticism about the past / Ted Poston. Skepticism and circularity : On metaepistemological scepticism / Duncan Pritchard and Christopher Ranalli

How our knowledge squares with skeptical intuitions despite the circle / Ernest Sosa. Afterword : The prospects for traditional internalism / Richard Fumerton. Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on March 17, 2016).

ISBN:

0-19-178872-4