Three Conversations about KnowingIn Jay Rosenberg's lively and accessible introductory dialogue, four bright students explore a number of the central topics and problems of contemporary epistemology--skepticism and certainty, internalism and externalism, foundationalism and coherentism, and the nature and limits of justification. Their wide-ranging discussion highlights many of the vivid and imaginative thought-experiments that have shaped both classical and contemporary reflections on the scope and character of our knowledge of the world. |
Contents
The First Conversation | 1 |
The Second Conversation | 18 |
The Third Conversation 37 | 37 |
References | 56 |
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