A Guide through the Theory of Knowledge, 3rd Edition

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.