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Summary: Epistemology
Review: My thoughts are: This is a book worth buying in hardback. Save your money. It is comprehensive in its scope of the subject and it is also well organized. Perennial edition. A superb place to pick-up the subject. The articles are short and sweetly picked. All articles are complete reprints, not abridgements. Some of the essays include The Goodman article on "grue", The Gettier problem, Kripke, A.J.Ayer "The apriori" kant, Stawson, Plato and Stace. Easily the best catalogue of articles bound together on this subject so far. Yes, it's expensive. But for your money you get prime articles in a well typset book. Easy on the eye. It just saves time, and puts you in the spotlight of contemporary discussion on epistemology. Pity no radical or mystical aspects.
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Summary: Great Up-to-date Selections
Review: Pojman's Reader in epistemology is one of the better texts for jumping right into the matter. It has a number of classic works by giant contemporaries (e.g. Alvin Plantinga, Keith Leher) and historical figures (Kant, Plato). The following are the sections listed in Pojman's text:1. The Theory of Knowledge (which should have been named the possibility of knowledge in my opinion).
2. Skepticism
3. Perception: Our Knowlewdge of the External World
4. The Analysis of Knowledge (is knowledge JTB?)
5. Theories of Justification (Foundationalism vs Coherentism)
6. Same... (Externalism vs Internalism)
7. A Priori Knowledge (this covers the analytic/synthetic debate)
8. Induction (excellent paper by Nelson Goodman here)
9. Other Minds (Plantinga's work is not included)
10. The Ethics of Belief (deontological theories)
11. Challenging and Alternatives to Contemporary Epistemology (this would be like Feminist epistemology, etc). Over all, this book gave me a very good background in the issues... though at times I did have to do other reading to follow. Pojman does provide short synopses of each essay (sometimes misunderstanding the issue such as in his comments on BonJour's essay, "A Critique of Foundationalism"). I also found the printing press (Wadsworth) did a horrible job. ... Besides that, I think the book is worth buying (probably along side something like Robert Audi's introduction to epistemology which is also available on Amazon).
Rating:
Summary: Great Up-to-date Selections
Review: Pojman's Reader in epistemology is one of the better texts for jumping right into the matter. It has a number of classic works by giant contemporaries (e.g. Alvin Plantinga, Keith Leher) and historical figures (Kant, Plato). The following are the sections listed in Pojman's text: 1. The Theory of Knowledge (which should have been named the possibility of knowledge in my opinion).
2. Skepticism
3. Perception: Our Knowlewdge of the External World
4. The Analysis of Knowledge (is knowledge JTB?)
5. Theories of Justification (Foundationalism vs Coherentism)
6. Same... (Externalism vs Internalism)
7. A Priori Knowledge (this covers the analytic/synthetic debate)
8. Induction (excellent paper by Nelson Goodman here)
9. Other Minds (Plantinga's work is not included)
10. The Ethics of Belief (deontological theories)
11. Challenging and Alternatives to Contemporary Epistemology (this would be like Feminist epistemology, etc). Over all, this book gave me a very good background in the issues... though at times I did have to do other reading to follow. Pojman does provide short synopses of each essay (sometimes misunderstanding the issue such as in his comments on BonJour's essay, "A Critique of Foundationalism"). I also found the printing press (Wadsworth) did a horrible job. ... Besides that, I think the book is worth buying (probably along side something like Robert Audi's introduction to epistemology which is also available on Amazon).
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