Contemporary Theories of Knowledge (Studies in Epistemology and Cognitive Theory) - Softcover

Cruz, Joseph

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0847689379 ISBN 13: 9780847689378

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 1999

Synopsis

This new edition of the classic Contemporary Theories of Knowledge has been significantly updated to include analyses of the recent literature in epistemology. Rather than merely making slight amendments to the first edition, Pollock and Cruz have undertaken a groundbreaking assessment of twentiethcentury epistemology. This book is both an advanced textbook offering traditional discussions of foundationalism, coherentism, and reliabilism and a detailed treatise on the authors' own distinctive view, direct realism.

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Review:

A fine introduction to the field and to Pollock's own thought.--Ernest Sosa, Brown University

A thorough and accurate survey of the present state of the subject, [Pollock's] book is also an original contribution of first importance. I know of no better introduction to contemporary theories of knowledge.--Roderick M. Chisholm, Brown University

"This is a stimulating book which everyone interested in the subject should read."--Philosophy and Phenomenological Research

An excellent recent survey of the present-day epistemologies of secular philosophy. . . . We can learn much . . . from the thoroughness and rigor of Pollock's argument."--Westminster Theological Journal

The book can be read with great profit not only by advanced philosophy students, but by all professional philosophers.--The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science

About the Author:

John L. Pollock is professor of philosophy at the University of Arizona. Joseph Cruz is assistant professor of philosophy and cognitive science at Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts.

About this edition

• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0847689379
• ISBN 13: 9780847689378
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 288