Contemporary Epistemology Reading List
The reading list for my minor exam is as follows:
Analysis of Knowledge/Skepticism:
Alston, W. (1980): “Level Confusion in Epistemology” in Midwest Studies in Philosophy 5: 135-150.
Gettier, E. (1963): “Is Justified True Belief Knowledge?” in Analysis 23:121-3.
Nozick, R. (2000): “Knowledge and Skepticism” in Epistemology: An Anthology, ed Ernest Sosa and Jaegwon Kim.
DeRose, K. (2000): “Solving the Skeptical Problem” in Epistemology: An Anthology, ed Ernest Sosa and Jaegwon Kim.
Externalism:
Feldman, R. (1985): “Reliability and Justification”, The Monist, 68, 159–74.
Goldman, A. (1986): Epistemology and Cognition, Part I.
Plantinga, A. (1988): “Positive Epistemic Status and Proper Function” Philosophical Perspectives 2:1-50.
Dretske, F. (1981): Knowledge and the Flow of Information (Chapters 4 & 5).
Internalism:
Bonjour, L. (1985): Structure of Empirical Knowledge.
Lehrer, K. (2000): Theory of Knowledge
Pollock, J. L. and J. Cruz. (1999): Contemporary Theories of Knowledge (second edition)
Naturalism:
Quine, V. W. O. (1969): “Epistemology Naturalized”, in Ontological Relativity. Columbia University Press, New York.
Feldman, R. (1999): “Methodological Naturalism in Epistemology”, in The Blackwell Guide to Epistemology, ed. John Greco and Ernest Sosa. Blackwell, Malden.
Contextualism:
Brady, M. & D. Pritchard (2005): “Epistemological Contextualism: Problems and Prospects,” The Philosophical Quarterly pp. 161-171.
DeRose, K.: “Contextualism: An Explanation and Defense,” Blackwell Guide to Epistomology, 1999.
