Knowledge

Duncan Pritchard offers students not only a new exploration of topics central to current epistemological debate, but also a new way of doing epistemology. This advanced textbook covers such key topics as virtue epistemology, anti-luck epistemology, epistemological disjunctivism and attributer contextualism.

Knowledge offers students not just a state-of-the-art treatment of what is central to current debates in epistemology, but also a new and distinctive perspective on those debates. Many of the main themes in contemporary epistemology are discussed, including:

Virtue epistemology
Anti-luck epistemology
The epistemic externalism/internalism distinction
Epistemological disjunctivism
Epistemic value
Radical scepticism
Contextualism
Neo-Mooreanism
Understanding

Written by an expert in the field, Knowledge will be essential reading for advanced epistemology students.


 
The Palgrave Philosophy Today series provides concise introductions to all the major areas of philosophy currently being taught in philosophy departments around the world. Each book gives a state-of-the-art informed assessment of a key area of philosophical study. In addition, each title in the series offers a distinct interpretation from an outstanding scholar who is closely involved with current work in the field. Books in the series provide students and teachers with not only a succinct introduction to the topic, with the essential information necessary to understand it and the literature being discussed, but also a demanding and engaging entry into the subject.