Epistemology Futures [Paperback]

How might epistemology build upon its past and present, so as to be better in the future?Epistemology Futurestakes bold steps towards answering that question. What methods will best serve epistemology? Which phenomena and concepts deserve more attention from it? Are there approaches and assumptions that have impeded its progress until now? This volume contains provocative essays by prominent epistemologists, presenting many new ideas for possible improvements in how to do epistemology.

Contributors:
Paul M. Churchland, Catherine Z. Elgin, Richard Feldman, A. C. Grayling, Stephen Hetherington, Christopher Hookway, Hilary Kornblith, Mark Kaplan, William G. Lycan, Adam Morton, Jonathan M. Weinberg, Linda Zagzebski

1. Introduction: epistemological progress,Stephen Hetherington
2. Appeals to intuition and the ambitions of epistemology,Hilary Kornblith
3. What's epistemology for? The case for neopragmatism in normative metaepistemology,Jonathan M. Weinberg
4. Inner spaces and outer spaces: the new epistemology,Paul M. Churchland
5. How to know (that knowledge-that is knowledge-how),Stephen Hetherington
6. Epistemology and inquiry: the primacy of practice,Christopher Hookway
7. Knowing what to think about: when epistemology meets the theory of choice,Adam Morton
8. Ideal agents and ideal observers in epistemology,Linda Zagzebski
9. On the Gettier Problem problem,William G. Lycan
10. Epistemic finitude and the framework of inference,A. C. Grayling
11. If you know, you can't be wrong,Mark Kaplan
12. From knowledge to understanding,Catherine Z. Elgin
13. Epistemological puzzles about disagreement,Richard Feldman