Empirical Knowledge - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0847682048 ISBN 13: 9780847682041

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 1996

Synopsis

This new edition provides an excellent overview of the field of epistemology. Revised sections on justification and knowledge and the Gettier Problem, and new sections on skepticism and naturalized epistemology, present the most important foundational and recent work in the theory of knowledge. Organized specifically with courses in mind, Empirical Knowledge is accessible to upper-level undergraduates and graduate students.

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About the Author:

Paul K. Moser is Professor of Philosophy at Loyola University Chicago. He is the author of: The God Relationship (Cambridge University Press, 2017), The Elusive God (Cambridge UP, 2009, winner of a national book award in philosophy from the Jesuit Honor Society), The Evidence for God (Cambridge UP, 2010), The Severity of God (Cambridge UP, 2013), Knowledge and Evidence (Cambridge UP, 1989), and Philosophy after Objectivity (Oxford UP, 1997), co-author of Theory of Knowledge (Oxford UP, 1997), editor of Jesus and Philosophy (Cambridge UP, 2008) and The Oxford Handbook of Epistemology (Oxford UP, 2002), and co-editor of The Cambridge Companion to the Problem of Evil (Cambridge UP, forthcoming 2017) and The Wisdom of the Christian Faith (Cambridge UP, 2013). He is the co-editor of the book series Cambridge Studies in Religion, Philosophy, and Society. His book Understanding Religious Experience will be published by Cambridge University Press in 2019. He is now writing a book titled Testing for God's Reality: A Neglected Spiritual Discipline.

Review:

collection of important essays that provides a useful introduction to a variety of key debates in contemporary epistemology . . . This is an important book for advanced undergraduate students as well as faculty in philosophy. (Robert P. Amico, Bonaventure University)

The second edition of Empirical Knowledge is certainly one of the best available anthologies in epistemology. Original, influential, and uniformly excellent contributions, representing importantly different perspectives. (Richard Fumerton, University of Iowa)

. . . first-rate contribution to epistemology and an indispensable item for anybody who would teach a first-rate course in epistemology. I cannot commend it enough. (Robert Almeder, Georgia State University)

The 2nd edition of Moser's Empirical Knowledge incorporates significant improvements to what was already an excellent anthology. In addition to an expanded introduction, Moser has added new selections on justification and knowledge and Gettier problem, and the volume now includes important recent papers on skepticism and on naturalized epistomology...unquestionably the finest anthology on topics in epistemology now available, one useful for undergraduate and graduate courses, and one any philosopher interested in contemporary epistemology would want to own. (John Heil, Davidson College)

About this edition

• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0847682048
• ISBN 13: 9780847682041
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 368
• Editor: Moser Paul K.