Epistemic Justification Internalism vs. Externalism, Foundations vs. Virtues [Paperback]

Ever since Plato it has been thought that one knows only if one's belief hits the mark of truth and does so with adequate justification. The issues debated by Laurence BonJour and Ernest Sosa concern mostly the nature and conditions of such epistemic justification, and its place in our understanding of human knowledge.

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• Presents central issues pertaining to internalism vs. externalism and foundationalism vs. virtue epistemology in the form of a philosophical debate.
  
• Introduces students to fundamental questions within epistemology while engaging in contemporary debates.
  
• Written by two of today’s foremost epistemologists.
  
• Includes an extensive bibliography.

Introduction. Laurence BonJour and Ernest Sosa.

Part I: A Version of Internalist Foundationalism: Laurence BonJour:.

1. The Regress Problem and Foundationalism.

2. Externalist Accounts of Justification.

3. In Search of Coherentism.

4. Back to Foundationalism.

5. The Conceptualization of Sensory Experience and the Problem of the External World.

Part II: Beyond Internal Foundations to External Virtues: Ernest Sosa:.

6. Knowledge and Justification.

7. Does Knowledge Have Foundation.

8. Skepticism and the Internal/External Divide.

9. A Virtue Epistemology.

Part III: Replies:.

10. Reply to Sosa.

11. Reply to Bonjour.

Bibliography.

Index.

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