Warrant in Contemporary Epistemology

Jonathan L. Kvanvig is Professor of Philosophy at Texas A & M University and the author, most recently, of The Problem of Hell (Oxford University Press, 1993) and The Intellectual Virtues and the Life of the Mind (Rowman & Littlefield, 1992).

• Chapter 1 IntroductionPart 2 Part I: Coherentism and InternalismChapter 3 Plantinga and CoherentismsChapter 4 Proper Function versus Systematic CoherenceChapter 5 Plantinga on Knowledge and Proper FunctionChapter 6 Plantinga on Epistemic InternalismPart 7 Part II: Defeasibility, Knowledge, and the Gettier ProblemChapter 8 Knowledge, Is Accurate and Comprehensive Enough True BeliefChapter 9 Warrant, Proper Function, Reliabilism, and DefeasibilityChapter 10 Warrant versus Indefeasible JustificationPart 11 Part III: NaturalismChapter 12 Science, Materialism, and False ConsciousnessChapter 13 Plantinga's NaturalismPart 14 Part IV: Warrant, Justification, and Expert KnowledgeChapter 15 Plantinga, Gettier, and WarrantChapter 16 Degrees of WarrantChapter 17 Experts, Knowledge, and PerceptionPart 18 Part V: Virtue EpistemologyChapter 19 Proper Functionalism and Virtue EpistemologyChapter 20 Postscript to "Proper Functionalism and Virtue Epistemology"Chapter 21 Plantinga's Proper Function Account of WarrantChapter 22 Part VI: Alvin Plantinga RepliesChapter 23 RespondeoChapter 24 Index

This is an instructive and exemplary collection of reasoning about knowledge. It introduces the reader to implications in Plantinga's perspective that can be readily pursued in examination of his other work recently and soon to be published.