Ernest Sosa is Romeo Elton Professor of Natural Theology at Brown University. He is co-editor (with Jonathan Dancy) of the Companion to Epistemology (Blackwell 1993), the Companion to Metaphysics (with Jaegwon Kim, Blackwell 1994), Metaphysics: an Anthology (with Jaegwon Kim, Blackwell 1998), and Epistemology: an Anthology (with Jaegwon Kim, Blackwell 1999). He is series editor of Great Debates in Philosophy (Blackwell) and is author of Knowledge in Perspective (1993).

Contributors vii

Preface viii

Introduction: What is Epistemology? John Greco 1

Part I Traditional Problems Of Epistemology 33

1 Skepticism Michael Williams 35

2 Realism, Objectivity, and Skepticism Paul K. Moser 70

3 What is Knowledge? Linda Zagzebski 92

4 The Dialectic of Foundationalism and Coherentism Laurence BonJour 117

Part II The Nature Of Epistemic Evaluation 143

5 Skepticism and the Internal/External Divide Ernest Sosa 145

6 In Defense of a Naturalized Epistemology Hilary Kornblith 158

7 Methodological Naturalism in Epistemology Richard Feldman 170

8 Contextualism: An Explanation and Defense Keith DeRose 187

9 Rationality Keith Lehrer 206

Part III Varieties Of Knowledge 221

10 Perceptual Knowledge William Alston 223

11 The A Priori George Bealer 243

12 Moral Knowledge and Ethical Pluralism Robert Audi 271

13 Epistemology of Religion Nicholas Wolterstorff 303

Part IV New Directions 325

14 Feminist Epistemology Helen E. Longino 327

15 Social Epistemology Frederick Schmitt 354

16 Procedural Epistemology - At the Interface of Philosophy and AI John L. Pollock 383

17 Hermeneutics as Epistemology Merold Westphal 415

Select Bibliography of Epistemology by Topic 436

Index 451