Table of Contents
Foreword for Students.
Acknowledgments.
1. Beliefs And Their Qualities:.
Defending and Attacking Beliefs.
Epistemic Ideals.
The Basic Concepts.
The Basic Questions of The Theory Of Knowledge.
Two Extreme Views.
2. Perception:.
The Issues.
The Concepts.
Empiricism.
Some Experiments.
Evidence Without Certainty.
What is Special About Perception?.
3. Apriori Beliefs:.
Knowledge Just By Thinking.
Apriori, Analytic, Necessary.
Kant on the Synthetic Apriori.
Quine on the Analytic/Synthetic Distinction.
Conceptual Truths.
The Uses of Reasoning.
4. Inductive Reasoning:.
Simple Induction.
Hume's Problem.
Goodman's Problem.
Sampling.
Solutions to Goodman's Problem.
Justifying Induction.
The Safeness of Induction.
IBE.
Safeness Reconsidered.
5. Middleword: Fallibilism:.
Error versus Ignorance.
Foundationalism versus Holism.
Fallibilisms.
How the Web Changes.
6. Defining Knowledge:.
Top-grade Belief.
Lehrer's Principle.
Reliability: The Case of the Ancient Mariner.
Missing Information.
Knowledge and Trust.
7. Externalism and Epistemic Virtues:.
The Escape from Justification.
Externalism.
Cousins of Knowledge.
Skepticism and Knowing that You Know.
Virtues.
The Externalist Attitude.
8. Knowledge Of Minds:.
Psychological Beliefs.
Self-centered Theories.
Behavioral Theories.
Folk Psychology.
Materialist Theories.
Errors of Self-attribution.
Dispositions, Occurrences, and Reliability.
Conclusion: The Indispensability of Psychology.
9. Moral Knowledge:.
Knowing Right from Wrong.
Thick and Thin Moral Beliefs.
Analogies: Color, Humor, and Witches.
Cognitivsm.
Knowing What You Know.
10. Bayesian And Naturalist Theories:.
Why Probability?.
A Guide Through The Theory Of Probability.
The Bayesian Picture of Evidence.
Objections to Bayesianism.
Background Beliefs.
Rationality Naturalized.
Bayesianism vs. Naturalism.
11. Afterword: Some Future Epistemology:.
Definitions.
Appendix for Teachers.
Index.
