Beyond "Justification": Dimensions of Epistemic Evaluation

William P. Alston

Published by Cornell University Press 2006

Beyond "Justification"

Dimensions of Epistemic Evaluation

William P. Alston

https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501720574

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About this book

Much of the writing in Anglo-American epistemology in the twentieth century focused on the conditions for beliefs being "justified." In a book that seeks to shift the ground of debate within theory of knowledge, William P. Alston finds that the...

Author / Editor information

The late William P. Alston was Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at Syracuse University. His books include A Realist Conception of Truth, Illocutionary Acts and Sentence Meaning, The Reliability of Sense Perception, and Perceiving God: The Epistemology of Religious Experience (all from Cornell).

Reviews

Ernest Sosa, Brown University and Rutgers University:

William P. Alston illuminates epistemology's dark core issues. It is wonderful to see his powerful intelligence once again so helpfully at work.

Robert Audi, University of Notre Dame, author of The Architecture of Reason, The Structure of Justification, and Epistemology:

This book is a wide-ranging and powerful challenge to traditional epistemology by one of the foremost epistemologists of our time. It is both indispensable for specialists and so lucid and concrete that it is readily accessible to general readers who want an account of many of the major topics occupying epistemology in the past half century—belief-formation, explanation, foundations of knowledge, intellectual virtue, internalism and externalism, perception, reliability, skepticism, and many others.

Richard Fumerton, F. Wendell Miller Professor of Philosophy, University of Iowa:

This book has all of the virtues one has come to expect from William P. Alston's work. His unpretentious, straightforward writing is a welcome return to the philosophical classics of earlier times. Alston makes many interesting and important claims both in criticizing and defending various accounts of epistemic justification—now reinterpreted by him as attempts to suggest epistemic desiderata of beliefs. Beyond 'Justification' makes an extremely valuable contribution to the field of epistemology.

Richard Feldman, University of Rochester:

Beyond 'Justification' is an engaging, provocative, and carefully argued book. It displays all the virtues of clarity and rigor that epistemologists have long admired in Alston's work. It is an important contribution.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
PREFACE Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
ABBREVIATIONS Publicly Available Download PDF	xv
INTRODUCTION Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
PART I. THE NATURALISTIC APPROACH
CHAPTER 1. DISPENSING WITH "JUSTIFICATION" Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	11
CHAPTER 2. THE EPISTEMIC POINT OF VIEW Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	29
CHAPTER 3. THE EPISTEMIC DESIDERATA APPROACH Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	39
CHAPTER 4. DEONTOLOGICAL DESIDERATA Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	58
CHAPTERS 5. ADEQUACY OF GROUNDS OF BELIEF Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	81
CHAPTER 6. RELIABILITY AND OTHER TRUTH-CONDUCIVE DESIDERATA Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	114
CHAPTER 7. ADDITIONAL EPISTEMIC DESIDERATA Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	162
CHAPTER 8. WHERE PARTICULAR DESIDERATA ARE OF SPECIAL IMPORTANCE Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	170
PART II . ULTIMATE QUESTIONS: THE EPISTEMOLOGY OF EPISTEMOLOGY
CHAPTER 9. CRITICAL QUESTIONS ABOUT EPISTEMOLOGICAL METHODOLOGY Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	191
CHAPTER 10. SKEPTICISM Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	211
CHAPTER 11. THE EPISTEMIC DESIDERATA APPROACH AND THE OVERALL EPISTEMIC ORGANIZATION OF BELIEF Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	230
ENVOI Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	243
BIBLIOGRAPHY Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	247
INDEX Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	251

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Language: English
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Audience: General/trade;
Pages
- Main content: 274
Keywords: Religious Studies; Philosophy

eBook

Published: July 5, 2018
ISBN: 9781501720574