Contemporary Debates in Epistemology

Notes on Contributors viii
 
Preface to the Second Edition xiii
 
Preface to the First Edition xiv
 
1 Should Knowledge Come First? 1
 
Knowledge First Timothy Williamson 1
 
What Is Knowledge-first Epistemology? Trent Dougherty and Patrick Rysiew 10
 
Experience First Trent Dougherty and Patrick Rysiew 17
 
Knowledge Still First Timothy Williamson 22
 
Still Nowhere Else to Start Trent Dougherty and Patrick Rysiew 25
 
2 Is Knowledge Closed under Known Entailment? 27
 
The Case against Closure Fred Dretske 27
 
The Case for Closure John Hawthorne 40
 
Reply to Hawthorne Fred Dretske 56
 
3 Is Knowledge Contextual? 60
 
Contextualism Contested Earl Conee 60
 
Contextualism Defended Stewart Cohen 69
 
Contextualism Contested Some More Earl Conee 75
 
Contextualism Defended Some More Stewart Cohen 79
 
4 Do Practical Matters Affect Whether You Know? 84
 
Practical Matters Affect Whether You Know Jeremy Fantl and Matthew McGrath 84
 
Practical Matters Do Not Affect Whether You Know Baron Reed 95
 
5 Can Skepticism Be Refuted? 107
 
The Refutation of Skepticism Jonathan Vogel 108
 
The Challenge of Refuting Skepticism Richard Fumerton 120
 
6 Are Intellectually Virtuous Motives Essential to Knowledge? 133
 
Knowledge Need Not Be Virtuously Motivated Jason Baehr 133
 
Knowledge and the Motive for Truth Linda Zagzebski 140
 
Reply to Zagzebski Jason Baehr 146
 
Reply to Baehr Linda Zagzebski 149
 
7 Can Knowledge Be Lucky? 152
 
Knowledge Cannot Be Lucky Duncan Pritchard 152
 
Knowledge Can Be Lucky Stephen Hetherington 164
 
8 Is There a Priori Knowledge? 177
 
In Defense of the a Priori Laurence BonJour 177
 
There Is No a Priori Michael Devitt 185
 
Reply to Devitt Laurence BonJour 195
 
Reply to BonJour Michael Devitt

Matthias Steup is Professor of Philosophy at Purdue University, USA, where he is head of the Department of Philosophy. A specialist in epistemology, he is a widely published author and editor. Previous work includes A Companion to Epistemology (co-edited with Jonathan Dancy and Ernest Sosa, Wiley-Blackwell, 2010, second edition), the first edition of Contemporary Debates in Epistemology (co-edited with Ernest Sosa, Wiley-Blackwell, 2005), and Knowledge, Truth and Duty (2001).
 
John Turri is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Waterloo, Canada. A specialist in epistemology and the philosophy of language, he has published dozens of articles on these topics in leading journals such as Philosophical Review, Noûs, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Analysis, and Philosophical Studies. He currently holds an Early Researcher Award from the Ontario Ministry of Economic Development and Innovation.
 
Ernest Sosa is Board of Governors Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University, USA. He has published books and articles in epistemology, including Knowledge in Perspective (1991), Epistemic Justification (with Laurence BonJour, Blackwell, 2003), A Virtue Epistemology (2007), Reflective Knowledge (2009), and Knowing Full Well (2011).