Saving epistemology from the epistemologists

This is a very selective survey of developments in epistemology, concentrating on work from the past twenty years that is of interest to philosophers of science. The selection is organized around interesting connections between distinct themes. I first connect issues about skepticism to issues about the reliability of belief-acquiring processes. Next I connect discussions of the defeasibility of reasons for belief to accounts of the theory-independence of evidence. Then I connect doubts about Bayesian epistemology to issues about the content of perception. The last detailed connection is between considerations of the finiteness of cognition and epistemic virtues. To connect the connections I end by briefly discussing the pressure that consideration of social roles in the transmission of belief puts on the purpose of epistemology.

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• Saving Belief from (Internalist) Epistemology

  Andrew Morton, Adam Morton et al.•Facta Philosophica•2003

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• Knowledge in a Social World

  Alvin I Goldman•Knowledge in a Social World•1999

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• Reflective equilibrium, analytic epistemology and the problem of cognitive diversity

  Open Access•Stephen Stich•Synthese•1988

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• Confirmational Holism and Bayesian Epistemology

  Open Access•David Christensen•Philosophy of Science•1992

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• Justified Belief and Epistemically Responsible Action

  Hilary Kornblith, Hilary� Kornblith•The Philosophical Review•1983

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• Saving the Phenomena

  James Bogen, James Woodward•The Philosophical Review•1988

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• Ignorance

  John Koethe, John L Koethe et al.•The Philosophical Review•1978

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• Epistemic Responsibility

  Laurence Bonjour, Lorraine Code•The Philosophical Review•1990

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• Epistemology and Cognition

  Gary Hatfield, Alvin I Goldman•The Philosophical Review•1989

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• Knowledge and the Flow of Information

  William P Alston, Fred I Dretske et al.•The Philosophical Review•1983

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• Solving the Skeptical Problem

  Keith Derose•The Philosophical Review•1995

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• Individualism and the Mental

  Open Access•Tyler Burge, Philosophy Documentation Center•Midwest Studies in Philosophy•1979

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