Companion to Epistemology 2nd edition [Hardback]

For undergraduate and graduate students and philosophers, Dancy (philosophy, U. of Reading, UK, and U. of Texas at Austin) et al. offer a comprehensive overview of epistemology. The first section of new review essays addresses ten recent developments: a priori knowledge, common sense, Bayesian epistemology, closure, epistemic virtue, contextualism, internalism vs. externalism, foundationalism vs. coherentism, perception, skepticism, and social epistemology. The subsequent sections consist of 20 self-profiles of leading epistemologists, like Fred Dretske, Alvin Goldman, Gilbert Harman, Alvin Plantinga, John Pollock, Timothy Williamson, and Linda Zagzebski, and their work in the field, followed by an alphabetical dictionary of entries on topics, figures, concepts, theories, and ideas in the field. This edition has been revised and extended and includes new and rewritten entries, including a priori, belief, William Alston, defeasibility, empiricism, luck, ethics, deontology, conversational implicature, evolutionary argument, feminist epistemology, intuition, memory, and relativism. Annotation ©2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Fully extended and revised, A Companion to Epistemology 2nd Edition includes a new section of detailed review essays, self-portraits of leading epistemologists and an up-to-date A-Z section consisting of nearly three hundred essays.

• The most comprehensive and up-to-date single volume reference guide on epistemology
• Comprised of over 280 A-Z entries from leading experts that have been extensively revised to bring the volume up-to-date, with many new and re-written entries reflecting developments in the field
• Includes new self-profile section with 20 entries by renowned epistemologists