Epistemology: The Key Thinkers

Stephen Hetherington is Professor of Philosophy at the University of New South Wales, in Sydney, Australia. He is also the Editor-in-Chief of the Australasian Journal of Philosophy.

• Notes on Contributors 1. Epistemology's Past Here and Now, Stephen Hetherington (University of New South Wales, Australia)2. Plato's Epistemology, Nicholas D. Smith (Lewis and Clark College, USA)3. Aristotle on Knowledge, Robert Bolton (Rutgers University, USA) and Alan Code (Stanford University, USA)4. Ancient Scepticism, Gisela Striker (Harvard University, USA)5. Medieval Epistemology: Augustine, Aquinas, and Ockham, Charles Bolyard (James Madison University, USA)6. The Epistemology of Descartes, Desmond M. Clarke (University College, Cork, Ireland)7. Locke, Berkeley, Hume: Epistemology, P. J. E. Kail (University of Oxford, UK)8. Kant and Kantian Epistemology, Melissa McBay Merritt (University of New South Wales, Australia) and Markos Valaris (University of New South Wales, Australia)9. American Pragmatism: Fallibilism and Cognitive Progress, Christopher Hookway (University of Sheffield, UK)10. Wittgenstein on Knowledge, Paul Snowdon (University College London, UK)11. Quine, Goldman and Two Ways of Naturalizing Epistemology, Ram Neta (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA)12. In Gettier's Wake, John Turri (University of Waterloo, Canada)13. Epistemology's Future Here and Now, Stephen Hetherington (University of New South Wales, Australia)Index

Whether read individually or collectively, these essays will be extremely valuable for those seeking a better understanding of primary source material that is often quite dense and, therefore, can be difficult for uninitiated readers to penetrate … [A] worthwhile contribution to the literature, especially for nonspecialists. Summing Up: Recommended. Lower- and upper-division undergraduates; graduate students.